Jack Hirshleifer, 1925-

Jack Hirshleifer s-a nascut in cartierul newyorkez Brooklyn pe 26 august 1925. Studiile sale au fost intrerupte de al doilea razboi mondial, in care a servit in marina din Pacific. Dupa razboi a obtinut licenta (1945) si doctoratul (1950) la Harvard. A muncit ca economist pentru RAND Corporation (1949-1955) si ca profesor la Universitatea din Chicago (1955-1960). De atunci munceste in Departamentul de Economie de la UCLA. Apartine Academiei Americane de Stiinta si Arte si Societatii de Econometrie. A fost vicepresedinte al Asociatiei Economice Americane.

A muncit in diverse domenii: economia resurselor, teoria capitalului, teoria intreprinderii, fiind un pionier al analizei economice al nesigurantei si informatiei, in bioeconomie si evolutia conflictelor.

email: jhirshle@ucla.edu

Opere de Jack Hirshleifer

• "On the Theory of Optimal Investment Decision", 1958, JPE.
• "The Bayesian Approach to Statistical Decision: An exposition", 1961, Journal of Business.
• "Investment Decision Under Uncertainty: Choice-theoretic approaches", 1965, QJE.
• "Investment Decision Under Uncertainty: Applications of the state-preference approach", 1966, QJE.
• "A Note on Böhm-Bawerk/Wicksell Theory of Interest", 1967, RES.
• Investment, Interest and Capital, 1970.
• "The Private and Social Value of Information and the Reward to Inventive Activity", 1971, AER.
• "Liquidity, Uncertainty and the Accumulation of Information", 1972, in Carter and Ford, eds, Uncertainty and Expectation in Economics.
• "Where Are We in the Theory of Information?", 1973, AER.
• "Speculation and Equilibrium: Information, risk and markets", 1975, QJE.
• "The Theory of Speculation Under Alternative Regimes of Markets", 1977, JFinance
• "Economics from a Biological Standpoint", 1977, JLawE.
• "The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information: An expository survey", cu J.G. Riley, 1979, JEL.
• Price Theory and Applications, 1980. Versión castellana: Microeconomía, Teoría y Aplicaciones, Prentice Hall Hispanoamericana, Mexico, 1988.
• What Strategies can Support the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation?, cu Juan Carlos Martínez Coll J. of Conflict Resolution, V. 32, N. 2, junio 1988. 
• The Limits of Reciprocity: Solution Concepts and Reactive Strategies in Evolutionary Equilibrium Models, con Juan Carlos Martínez Coll Rationality and Society, V.3-1, enero 1991
• The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information, cu J.G.Riley, 1992.
• Selection and Mutation in Evolutionary Games, cu Juan Carlos Martínez Coll, Revista Spaniola de Economie, V. 9, 2, 1992.
• "The Legal Battle: Application of Warfare Models to Litigation", 1998