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Jack Hirshleifer

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Jack Hirshleifer · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1925, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2005, Los Angeles, California, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Jack Hirshleifer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Jack Hirshleifer was an American economist at UCLA, a pioneer in the economics of uncertainty and information and in extending economic reasoning to conflict, cooperation and even biology and evolution. His work on investment decisions, the private and social value of information, and the "dark side" of the force in bargaining influenced several fields. He was Jewish, from a New York Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists