Robert Dorfman
Robert Dorfman · Economics & Business
Economist
1916, New York City, New York, United States — 2002, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Robert Dorfman was an American economist at Harvard who helped introduce linear programming and mathematical optimization into economics, co-authoring the classic 'Linear Programming and Economic Analysis' (1958), and did pioneering work on cost–benefit analysis and environmental economics. Of American Jewish background, he also derived the Dorfman–Steiner condition on optimal advertising. His rigorous methods reshaped how economists model resource allocation.
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