Peter Steigman Albin (December 20, 1934 – February 20, 2008) was an American

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who wrote and taught primarily in New York City. Among other contributions, he was known for applying

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in the social sciences.

Career

Peter S. Albin earned his BA, from

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in 1956 and

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from

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in 1964, both in

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. He was a professor of economics at New York University from 1960 to 1974, and Chairman of the Economics Department of John Jay College of the City University of New York from 1974 to 1991. He taught and performed research at the

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. He was visiting professor at the University of Göttingen in 1979–1980, the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1972–1973, he taught at the

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, at

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(1968–1969), at the

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(1977–1979). Additionally, he was a partner in the asset management and investment advisory firm, the Unicorn Group, for many years.

Writings

Books

*(with Duncan K. Foley) ''Barriers and Bounds to Rationality:essays on economic complexity and dynamics in interactive systems" Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998. . Held at 257 WorldCat libraries *''Progress Without Poverty: Socially Responsible Economic Growth'' New York: Basic Books, 1978 . Held at 465 World Cat libraries *"The Analysis of Complex Socio-Economic Systems" Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books,

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Held at 265 WorldCat libraries WorldCat
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Journal articles

His articles have appeared in the

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, 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'',

, and many other publications.

References

External links

obituary

Peter Albin at the National Library of Australia

''Unbalanced Growth and Intensification of the Urban Crisis'' A paper at Sage

''Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institution'' 1934 births 2008 deaths Economists from New York (state) American essayists American male essayists American political writers Cellular automatists Yale College alumni Princeton University alumni City University of New York faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty Academic staff of the University of Paris Academics of the University of Cambridge Writers from New York City 20th-century American economists 20th-century essayists 20th-century American male writers {{economist-stub