Zvi Griliches
Zvi Griliches · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Econometrician known for research on technological diffusion, R&D and productivity
1930, Kaunas, Lithuania — 1999, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Lithuania · Israel · United States
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Zvi Griliches was a Lithuanian-born American econometrician at Harvard whose landmark studies of the diffusion of hybrid corn, and of research and development, patents and productivity, shaped the economics of technological change. A Holocaust survivor who spent time in the Kaunas ghetto and Dachau before emigrating via Israel, he was Jewish.
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Econometrician known for research on technological diffusion, R&D and productivity
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