Eliot Roy Weintraub (; born March 22, 1943) is an American

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, and, since 1976, professor of economics at

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.• John Lodewijks, 2002. "Roy Weintraub's Contribution to the History of Economics," in S. G. Medema and W. J. Samuels, ed., ''Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory'', Routledge, pp
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Career

Weintraub has published numerous articles in professional journals and other edited volumes. His teaching and research have traced the connection between mathematical economics, mathematics and economics at technical, methodological or historical, and microeconomic, micro and macro levels. A broad theme of later work has been the transformation of economics from a

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to a mathematical discipline, as in ''General Equilibrium Analysis'' (1985), ''Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge'' (1991), ''How Economics Became a Mathematical Science'' (2002)., and "Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit" co-authored with Till Düppe (2014). The latter was awarded the 2016 Joseph J. Spengler prize for best book by the history of economics society. He also wrote for and edited ''Towards a History of Game Theory'' (1993) and more recently two

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volumes. His books have been variously translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hungarian, and Italian. Currently he is Associate Editor of the journals ''History of Political Economy'' and the ''Economics Bulletin'', and Co-Editor of the book series ''Science and Cultural Theory''. He has held visiting positions at the

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, the

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, the

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, and the University of Venice. At Duke he was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics from 1972 to 1983, Chair of that department from 1983 to 1987, Acting Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences in 1987, Director of the Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science from 1995–1999, and has twice chaired the Academic Council. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has served terms on the Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure, the Academics Priorities Committee, the Faculty Compensation Committee, and has chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Resources. He served for many years as a pre-major advisor and a teacher of first-year seminars, and has been Director of the Honors Program for the Department of Economics, and Faculty Fellow in the former Edens Federation for Residential Life. Weintraub has been one of the few economists awarded a fellowship year (1988–9) by the

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. His subject was "The Creation of Modern Economics: 1935–1955". In 1992 he won the Howard Johnson Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. He was president of the History of Economics Society in 2003–2004 and was honored by the Society as a Distinguished Fellow in 2011.History of Economics Society
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. A native of the

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area, Weintraub received an A.B. degree (1964, mathematics) from

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and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (1967 and 1969,

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) from the

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. His Ph.D. thesis advisors were

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and

Herbert Wilf Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylv ...

. He joined the Duke University faculty in 1970 following a first academic position at

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. He lives with his family in

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. E. Roy Weintraub is the son of the economist Sidney Weintraub.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Weintraub, E. Roy Swarthmore College alumni Living people Duke University faculty Economists from New York (state) 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Historians of economic thought Microeconomists University of Pennsylvania alumni 1943 births 21st-century American economists