Oliver Hart
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Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart (born October 9, 1948 in London ) is an American economist of British origin. Together with Bengt Holmström he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 2016 for “Contributions to Contract Theory ”.
Life
Hart studied mathematics at King's College (Cambridge) and economics at the University of Warwick . After receiving his doctorate from Princeton University , he worked at Churchill College and as a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Since 1984 he has been living in the USA again, whose citizenship he accepted. After working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he has been teaching at Harvard University since 1993 . In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2016 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Hart is married and has two children.
His main research interests are corporate theory , contract theory and corporate finance . Hart assumes that contracts are inevitably incomplete and therefore the rights of disposal are of great importance.
Works
- Oliver Hart: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure. Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-828881-6
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 1: A – L. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7031-8 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 1878
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Blaug, Howard R. Vane: Who's who in economics. 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016. In: http://www.nobelprize.org . Nobel Media AB, October 10, 2016, accessed October 10, 2016 .
- ↑ heise online: Nobel Prize in Economics to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for contract theory. In: heise online. Retrieved October 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Oliver Hart Named First Andrew Furer Professor of Economics. In: Harvard University Gazette. 1998
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hard, Oliver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hart, Oliver Simon D'Arcy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |