Name Yoram Barzel | ||
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Books Economic analysis of property rights, A theory of the state Education University of Chicago, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | ||
Yoram Barzel (born 1931) is an Israeli economist and a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington. He is interested in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy.
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Education
Barzel graduated with a B.A. (1953) and M.A. (1956) in economics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1961. He specializes in price theory and economic organization.
Research
Barzel is known for developing a property rights/transaction cost approach to economics and he has written on topics ranging from car racing to slavery to Jewish lending to voting rules in condominium associations. Among his many ideas are those about racing to claim assets, multitasking, rationing by waiting, divided ownership of complex assets, measurement costs, and the economic origins of democracy. In the process Barzel's work unearthed the economic rationale for many institutions and offered a framework for analyzing them. Barzel holds an important place among all economists for expanding the scope of economic science in a way that focuses attention on the importance of institutions and the economic logic of their variety.
Book
Following are the books published by Barzel.