Nationality Canadian Institution New Economic School | Name Shlomo Weber | |
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Born 9 February 1949 (age 75) ( 1949-02-09 ) Russia Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem Awards Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Outstanding Foreign Scientists Education Moscow State University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Fields Game theory, Political Economy, Public economics Books How Many Languages Do We N, The Art of Making Everybod, Regional Disparities and Tran | ||
SSSI 2017 Moscow: Shlomo Weber
Shlomo Weber (born 2 September 1949) is an economics professor and Rector, New Economic School in Moscow, Russia; Academic Director, Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow; Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University.
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- SSSI 2017 Moscow Shlomo Weber
- Education
- Career
- Academic awards
- Publications selection
- Co authored
- Seminars
- References
His main research interests are diversity, game theory and political economy, though also public economics and economy of the former USSR, of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have been noted.
Education
Weber earned a degree of Master of Science in mathematics from the Moscow State University in 1971. Eight years later at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, he became a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematical economics. He is a professor in economics, since 1993 affiliated with the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, U.S. and has Canadian and American citizenships.
Career
Weber's teaching experience includes political economy, microeconomic theory, welfare economics, industrial organization, microfoundations of macroeconomics, principles of economics, price theory, public choice, public economics, game theory, social choice, advanced economic analysis, mathematical analysis for economists, operations research.
Between 1980 and 1986 Shlomo Weber had been a lecturer, visiting scholar, senior lecturer, associate professor or visiting associate professor at departments of economics of universities in Israel (Haifa), the USA (Yale, Institute for Mathematics in Social Sciences at Stanford), and Canada (U of T, York). At the latter university he was Professor of Economics from 1987 till 1993 though in 1990–91 visiting professor at the University of Bonn in Germany.
Whilst affiliated with the SMU at which he is a member of several committees, was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 till 2000 and remained Director of the Richard B. Johnson Center for Economic Studies from 1994 till 2007, he was visiting professor at the University of Venice, Italy, in the summers of 1994–95 and obtained further professional experience as visiting professor at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 2000–2001, followed by a few months at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize holder at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany in 2003, and from 2004 till 2006 the Research Director at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University in Louvain-la-Neuve.
Academic awards
Weber has won the following awards:
Publications (selection)
More than a hundred articles by Shlomo Weber have been published in scientific journals on economics and on political sciences