Jack Hirshleifer

Jack Hirshleifer (August 26, 1925 – July 26, 2005) was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

He received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica from 1949 to 1955. He then taught at the University of Chicago from 1955 to 1960, and at UCLA until 2001. Hirshleifer was well-known for his work on uncertainty and information in economics, the economic analysis of conflict, and bioeconomics. His undergraduate textbook, Price Theory and Applications, went into seven editions. A 1958 article by Hirshleifer began the triumphant comeback of Irving Fisher's theory of capital and interest, now deemed canonical.

Bibliography

• Hirshleifer Jack, Investment, Interest, and Capital, Prentice/Hall International, Inc. 1970
• Hirshleifer, Jack. "Exchange Theory: The Missing Chapter." Western Economic Journal (Economic Inquiry) 11 (June 1973): 129-146
• Hirshleifer Jack, Price Theory and Applications, Prentice/Hall International, Inc. 1976
• Hirshleifer Jack, "From weakest-link to best-shot: The voluntary provision of public goods", Public Choice, Vol. 41, Number 3, January 1983, pp. 371–386.
• Hirshleifer Jack. The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Hirshleifer Jack. The dark side of the force: economic foundations of conflict theory. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

External links

• Biography at New School web page
• Obituary