Jacob Marschak

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Jacob Marschak
Cowles Commission
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisorEmil Lederer
Doctoral studentsLeonid Hurwicz
Harry Markowitz
Franco Modigliani

Jacob Marschak (23 July 1898 – 27 July 1977) was an American economist.

Life

Born in a Jewish family of

University of Heidelberg.[2]

From 1922 to 1926 he was a journalist, and in 1928 he joined the new

Cowles Commission.[1] He followed the commission's move to Yale University,[1] and he then became a professor at UCLA in 1960.[1][2]

In 1972 he co-founded Team Theory with Roy Radner.

Marschak was fluent in approximately one dozen languages. Shortly before he was due to become president of the American Economic Association, he died from a cardiac arrest.[2]

UCLA sponsors the recurring Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavior Sciences.

Major publications

Books

  • Marschak, Jacob (1930). Die Lohndiskussion. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen.
  • Marschak, Jacob (1931). Elastizität der Nachfrage. Zur empirischen Feststellung relativer Marktkonstanten durch Beobachtung von Haushalt, Betrieb und Markt. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen.
  • Marschak, Jacob; Lederer, Emil (1937). The new middle class. Isha Books. .
  • Marschak, Jacob (1954). Three lectures on probability in the social sciences. Chicago: Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. .
  • Marschak, Jacob; Radner, Roy (1972). Economic theory of teams.
  • Marschak, Jacob (1974). Economics, information, decision and prediction, Selected Essays, 3 Volumes. Reidel: Dordrecht and Boston, MA. .

Chapters in books

Translates as:Marschak, Jacob; Lederer, Emil, "New middle class", in Lederer, Jacob (ed.), New middle class, Isha Books, .

Journal articles

Honours

References

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