Armen Alchian
American economist (1914–2013) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Armen Albert Alchian (/ˈɑːltʃiən/; April 12, 1914 – February 19, 2013) was an American economist. He spent almost his entire career at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A major microeconomic theorist, he is known as one of the founders of new institutional economics and widely acknowledged for his work on property rights.
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Born | (1914-04-12)April 12, 1914 Fresno, California, U.S. |
Died | February 19, 2013(2013-02-19) (aged 98) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Education | Stanford University (BA, PhD) |
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Field | Microeconomics Property rights Law and economics[1] |
School or tradition | New Institutional Economics Chicago School Neoclassical economics |
Doctoral students | William F. Sharpe,[2] David R. Henderson,[3] Steven N. S. Cheung,[4] Jerry Jordan[5] |
Influences | Adam Smith,[6] Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek |
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