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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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