Franklin Fisher

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Franklin Marvin Fisher (born December 13, 1934 in New York City - † April 29, 2019 ) was an American economist . Until his retirement , he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Career, research and teaching

Fisher attended Harvard University , where he graduated as a Master of Arts the following year after his Bachelor of Arts , which he obtained summa cum laude in 1956 . In 1960 he graduated with a Ph.D. in economics, his doctoral thesis was entitled "Priori Information and Time Series Analysis".

From 1959 Fisher worked as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago before moving to MIT in the following year. There he was promoted to associate professor in 1962 , and three years later he was appointed full professor at the university. Even after his retirement in 2004, he held the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Chair for Microeconomics at MIT.

Fisher's central research and teaching areas covered, in particular, industrial economics , microeconomics and related econometric methods . He distinguished himself as an expert in particular in the areas of competition , competition law as well as the infringement and breaking of contracts and trademark rights. In this context, he was involved in the major competition law disputes between the US antitrust authorities and IBM in the 1970s and 1980s on the one hand and with Microsoft in the 1990s on the other .

From 1963 Fisher was a fellow of the Econometric Society , which he chaired in 1979. He was a member of the American Economic Association and was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. He has received several awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Medal , which he received in 1973.

Works

The following is a listing of Fisher's published books, and he is the author of numerous magazine articles and working papers.

  • A Priori Information and Time Series Analysis: Essays in Economic Theory and Measurement. 1962
  • with Carl Kaysen : A Study in Econometrics: The Demand for Electricity in the United States. 1962
  • with Albert Ando & Herbert A. Simon : Essays on the Structure of Social Science Models. 1963
  • Supply and Costs in the United States Petroleum Industry: Two Econometric Studies. 1964
  • The Identification Problem in Econometrics. 1966
  • with Karl Shell : The Economic Theory of Price Indices. Academic Press, New York 1972.
  • with John J. McGowan & Joen Greenwood: Folded, Spindled, and Mutilated: Economic Analysis and US v. IBM. 1983
  • with James McKie & Richard Mancke: IBM and the US Computer Industry: An Economic History. 1983
  • Disequilibrium Foundations of Equilibrium Economics. 1983
  • Antitrust and Regulation: Essays in Memory of John J. McGowan. 1985
  • Industrial Organization, Economics, and the Law. 1990
  • Econometrics: Essays in Theory and Applications. 1991
  • Aggregation: Aggregate Production Functions and Related Topics. 1992
  • with Karl Shell: The Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes. 1997
  • Microeconomics: Essays in Theory and Application. 1999
  • with David S. Evans, Daniel Rubinfeld & Richard Schmalensee : Did Microsoft Harm Consumers? Two opposing views. 2000
  • with Annette Huber-Lee, Ilan Amir, Shaul Arlosoroff, Zvi Eckstein, Munther Haddadin, Salem Hamati, Ammar Jarrar, Anan Jayyousi, Uri Shamir, Hans Wesseling, Amer Salman & Emad Al-Karablieh: Liquid Assets: An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond. 2005

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary on legacy.com
  2. ↑ nytimes.com: "Pricing at Issue As US Finishes Microsoft Case" (accessed October 5, 2011)
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, Franklin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisher, Franklin Marvin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2019