Shlomo Weber

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Shlomo Weber
Born (1949-09-02) 2 September 1949 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
Institution New Economic School
Field Game theory, political economy and public economics, diversity
Alma mater Moscow State University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AwardsAlexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Outstanding Foreign Scientists

Shlomo Weber (born 2 September 1949) is an economics professor and ex-Rector, New Economic School in Moscow, Russia; [1] Academic Director of the Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions at NES; Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University.

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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. [2]

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. [3] [4] He also serves on the board of trustees at Graduate School of Economics and Management of UrFU.

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. [2]

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. [5]

Academic awards

Weber has won the following awards: [6]

1980-81Alexander von Humboldt Research FellowUniversity of Bonn, Germany.
1992Visiting E.H.E.S.S. Professorship DELTA (since 2005 part of PSE), Paris, France.
1993Alexander von Humboldt Research FellowTechnical University of Dresden, Germany.
1994Casa di Risparmio Visiting ProfessorshipUniversity of Venice, Italy.
1994Visiting Scholar Tokyo Center for Economic Research University of Tokyo, Japan.
1995Casa di Risparmio Visiting ProfessorshipUniversity of Venice, Italy.
1996Visiting E.H.E.S.S. Professorship GREQAM, France.
1996SEW - EURODRIVE Foundation Visiting ProfessorshipDresden, Germany.
2000Japanese Society for Promotion of Science FellowshipTokyo, Japan.
2002Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Outstanding Foreign ScientistsTechnical University of Dresden, Germany.
2004Visiting E.H.E.S.S. Professorship University of Toulouse, France.
2013Winner of the National Megagrant Competition,3rd wave, The Ministry of Education and Science.Russian Federation

Publications (selection)

More than a hundred articles by Shlomo Weber have been published in scientific journals on economics and on political sciences [7]

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References

  1. "Shlomo Weber". New Economic School. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Shlomo Weber". Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC). Retrieved 1 September 2007.
  3. "Curriculum vitae - Shlomo Weber" (PDF). Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. July 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2007.{{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. "Curriculum vitae - Shlomo Weber" (PDF). Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, U.S. 4 January 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.{{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. Three documents of the same source, CORE Archived 2012-02-21 at the Wayback Machine , UCL, Belgium, retrieved on 1 September 2007:
    *Curriculum vitae - Shlomo Weber (July 2005)
    *Curriculum vitae - Luc Bauwens (23 June 2007)
    *Recent short term visitors (23 February 2007).
  6. le Breton, Michel; Weber, Shlomo (May 2003). "Stable Partitions in a Model with Group-Dependent Feasible Sets" (PDF). p. 1 footnote. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  7. "Experts". Itinera Institute, Brussels, Belgium. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-04.{{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)