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CEEL Summer school Sixth summer school Biographical sketches of instructor and guest lecturers

 
     
Biographical sketches of instructor and guest lecturers

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BINMORE Ken

DOSI Giovanni

FRIEDMAN Daniel

HOWITT Peter

LEIJONHUFVUD Axel Stig Bengt

NELSON Richard

SAMUELSON Larry

 

 BINMORE Ken Index

Ken Binmore held a Chair in Mathematics for many years at the London School of Economics before turning to economics. His most recent appointment before retiring was in the Economics Department at University College London. He is currently visiting the California Institute of Technology as Mellon Professor of the Humanities. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has consulted widely on a variety of economic issues, notably the $35 billion dollar UK telecom auction. His current research interests are in game theory, experimental economics and moral philosophy. His most recent book is "Natural Justice", forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

 

 DOSI Giovanni Index

Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Economics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, where he also coordinates the Doctoral Program in Economics and Management and leads the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), which sponsors and hosts research in the areas of economics of innovation, organisation theory and empirics, management and corporate strategies, public choice and other aspects of public policy, innovation studies, environment, industrial history and theory, cognitive and artificial sciences. His major research areas include economics of innovation and technological change, industrial organisation and industrial dynamics, theory of the firm and corporate governance, economic growth and development.
Professor Dosi is Co-Director of the task force on Industrial Policy, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (Joseph Stiglitz chairman), Columbia University, New York; Editor for Continental Europe of Industrial and Corporate Change; Research consultant for, among others, OECD, Brazilian Ministry of Planning, UNCTAD, French Ministry of Research, Italian Ministry of Research, EU Commission, Bank of Italy, and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sussex.

 

 

 FRIEDMAN Daniel Index

Dan Friedman's 1977 dissertation on market dynamics (supervised by Stephen Smale) earned him a Mathematics PhD from University of California, Santa Cruz. He learned something about real-world finance and economics from two years at Bank of America, and then began his academic career at UCLA. He joined the UCSC Economics Department in 1985. Best known for his work in evolutionary game theory and laboratory markets, Dan is currently investigating e-commerce market institutions and the evolutionary foundations of behavioral economics.

 

 HOWITT Peter Index

Peter Howitt is Professor of Economics at Brown University. After receiving a PhD at Northwestern University under Bob Clower's supervision, he went to the University of Western Ontario where he taught from 1972 to 1994. He has written extensively on monetary economics, growth theory, Keynesian economics and the theory of unemployment. He and Clower are currently writing a book on money, markets and firms. From 1995 to 2000 he taught at the Ohio State University and from 2000 he is Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island

 

 LEIJONHUFVUD Axel Stig Bengt Index

Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies

 

 NELSON Richard Index

Richard R. Nelson is an economist by training. Over his career he has taught at Oberlin College, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, and Columbia University, where he now is George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs,. He also has served as research economist and analyst at the Rand Corporation, and at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors.
His central interests have been in long-run economic change. Much of his research has been directed toward understanding technological change, how economic institutions and public policies influence the evolution of technology, and how technological change in turn induces institutional and economic change more broadly. His work has been both empirical and theoretical. Along with Sidney Winter, he has pioneered in developing a formal evolutional theory of economic change. Their joint book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change is widely recognized as a landmark in this field.
Over the course of his career, he has been particularly attracted to working with and coordinating relatively large research teams. His National Innovation Systems project involved a team of approximately twenty scholars, and his recent study on The Sources of Industrial Leadership involved the coordination of a similar-size group. He was director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, and has directed Columbia’s Public Policy Doctoral Consortium.

 

 SAMUELSON Larry Index

Larry Samuelson is Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin. He received his Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Illinois. His research interests are in game theory, with particular emphasis on evolutionary game theory. He has written a series of papers with Ken Binmore on the implications of evolutionary models for equilibrium selection. His book, "Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection," provides an introduction to the evolutionary perspective on equilibrium selection and presents the state of the art. More recently, hehas turned his attention to the implications of our evolutionary past for our current behavior and preferences. He has served as an associate editor or on the editorial board of Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and International Journal of Game Theory, and Economic Theory.

 

 

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