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Avner Greif
Avner Greif | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | Israel and U.S. |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Economic history |
| Institution | Stanford University |
| School or tradition | New institutional economics |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University Tel Aviv University |
| Doctoral advisor | Joel Mokyr[1] John C. Panzar[1] William Rogerson[1] |
Avner Greif (/ɡraɪf/; born 1955) is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences.
Greif received his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University, where Joel Mokyr acted as his supervisor,[2] in 1989 and started his career at Stanford University in 1989 until he received tenure in 1994. In 1998 he received a 'genius grant'[3] from the MacArthur Foundation. His works deal with economic history and role of institutions in economic development, including analysis of trade in medieval Europe and Levant.
- ^ a b c Greif, Avner (1991). "The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". The Journal of Economic History. 51 (2): 459. doi:10.1017/s0022050700039097. S2CID 154791174.
- ^ "Avner Greif's Homepage at Stanford Department of Economics". Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ "1998 MacArthur Foundation Awards".
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