Lawrence E. Blume is the Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor of
Economics
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and Professor of
Information Science
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at
Cornell University
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, US.
He is a visiting research professor at
IHS Vienna and a member of the external faculty at the
Santa Fe Institute
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, where he has served as co-director of the economics program and on the institute's steering committee. He teaches and conducts research in
general equilibrium theory
In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an ov ...
and
game theory
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, and also has research projects on natural resource management, network design, and evolutionary processes in markets and games. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, he received a
BA in economics from
Washington University
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and a
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* '' Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. al ...
in economics from the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Blume was one of the general editors of ''
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
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'', to which he contributed several articles on
mathematical economics
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:
Convexity
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Science and technology
* Convex lens, in optics
Mathematics
* Convex set, containing the whole line segment that joins points
** Convex polygon, a polygon which encloses a convex set of points
** Convex polytope ...
,
convex programming
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, and
duality.
Currently he is the associate editor of the ''
Journal of Economic Literature
The ''Journal of Economic Literature'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the American Economic Association, that surveys the academic literature in economics. It was established in 1963 as the ''Journal of Economic Abstracts'', ''.
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References
External links
Larry Blume's Home Page*
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Cornell University faculty
Living people
Mathematical economists
21st-century American economists
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Santa Fe Institute people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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