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He was chair of the Economics department at the [[University of Chicago]] and colleague to an impressive range of celebrated economists including friend [[Gary S. Becker]]. |
He was chair of the Economics department at the [[University of Chicago]] and colleague to an impressive range of celebrated economists including friend [[Gary S. Becker]]. |
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Rosen died at the [[Bernard Mitchell Hospital]] on March 17, 2001 at the age of 62. Had he not died prematurely Rosen would surely have received he Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. His article on hedonic pricing is one of the three most cited in economics and he is credited with inventing the notion of the economics of superstars and tournament theory. As well, his masterful treatment of the theory of equalizing differences is without peer. Rosen was a brusque individual but never cruel or offhand. He graduated from the celebrated early 1960's class at the University of Chicago that included Robert Lucas and Alan Wallis. Friedman, who taught the class thought at the time that he had never seen such a nondescript group of economists. Time proved him wrong. Rosen was a superlative stylist writing in spare prose that delivered the maximum punch. |
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Rosen died at the [[Bernard Mitchell Hospital]] on March 17, 2001 at the age of 62. |
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==Selected works== |
==Selected works== |
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Revision as of 04:18, 26 March 2006
Sherwin Rosen was an American labor economist. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Stanford University and its Hoover Institution. At the time of his death, Rosen was Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and president of the American Economic Association.
Rosen received his B.S. in economics from Purdue University in 1960, his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1962 and 1966 respectively.
He was chair of the Economics department at the University of Chicago and colleague to an impressive range of celebrated economists including friend Gary S. Becker.
Rosen died at the Bernard Mitchell Hospital on March 17, 2001 at the age of 62. Had he not died prematurely Rosen would surely have received he Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. His article on hedonic pricing is one of the three most cited in economics and he is credited with inventing the notion of the economics of superstars and tournament theory. As well, his masterful treatment of the theory of equalizing differences is without peer. Rosen was a brusque individual but never cruel or offhand. He graduated from the celebrated early 1960's class at the University of Chicago that included Robert Lucas and Alan Wallis. Friedman, who taught the class thought at the time that he had never seen such a nondescript group of economists. Time proved him wrong. Rosen was a superlative stylist writing in spare prose that delivered the maximum punch.
Selected works
Potato Paradoxes, Journal of Political Economy, 1999, col. 107, no. 6, pt. 2, pgs. 294-313
External link
- Obituary - University of Chicago