Jerry Richard Green (born December 15, 1946) is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He is known for his research in economic theory, as well as writing the most commonly used microeconomic theory textbook for graduate school with

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and

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, ''Microeconomic Theory''.

Biography

Green received his bachelor's degree from the

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in 1967 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1970. He then joined Harvard's economics faculty. He was Harvard's Provost from 1992-1994 and chaired the economics department from 1984-1987. He is a recipient of the J. Kenneth Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching. He is a Senior Fellow at the

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and a fellow of the

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. He was elected fellow of the

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in 1994 and fellow of the

Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory abbreviated as SAET is a non-profit membership society founded to "advance knowledge in theoretical economics and to facilitate communication among researchers in economics, mathematics, game theor ...

in 2012.

References

External links

Green's homepage at Harvard Business School

Microeconomic Theory at Oxford University Press
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