Steven Shavell

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Steven Mark Shavell (* 1946 in Washington, DC ) is an American economist and lawyer .

Career, research and teaching

Shavell first attended the University of Michigan , where he received an Artium Baccalaureus in mathematics and economics in 1968 . He then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston . There he graduated in 1973 as a Ph.D. in economics. From 1977 to 1978 he attended Harvard Law School , which he left as a Liberal Arts Fellow .

From 1974 Shavell worked at Harvard University . First he worked as an assistant professor in economics until 1979 , then as an associate professor . From 1980 he was assistant professor of law and economics before he was appointed full professor in 1982. In 1985 he became director of the Law and Economics Program , which he held for ten years. In 1995 he was appointed director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business . In 2000 the university appointed him to the Samuel R. Rosenthal Chair for Law and Economics . In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Shavell's work focuses on commercial law , taking economic approaches and procedures into account in his work and lectures. In particular, the analysis of the economic effects of law and case law is the focus of his publications. He covers different industries as well as different aspects of law.

Works

The following is a list of books published by Shavell and the author of numerous magazine articles and working papers.

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , p. 761

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personal data
SURNAME Shavell, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shavell, Steven Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC