Bio:
Menahem Yaari is Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics (Emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the years 2004-2010 he served as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities where he has been a member since 1991. Dr. Yaari was born in Jerusalem in 1935, and in 1958 he received a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1962, he was granted a Ph.D. in economics and statistics by Stanford University in California. He started his academic career at Yale University, where he served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor and was a member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. Later he became Professor of Mathematical Economics at the Hebrew University. He is a founding member of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University, and has served as chair of the Center's Academic Committee from its inception in 1991 until 2004. Menahem Yaari's research has been mainly in the areas of the economics of uncertainty, consumer theory, and economic justice. He is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1969 and also a Foreign Honorary Member of American Economic Association. In the period 1985-1992, Professor Yaari was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after which, from 1992 to 1997, he served as President of The Open University of Israel. He is a founding member and co-chair of IPSO (the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization). In 2000/01 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987, the Rothschild Prize in 1994, and the E.M.E.T. Prize in 2012.
Dates of Visit:
Monday 7 March – Friday 18 March, 2016
Project Title:
"Topics in Decision Theory"
Project Description:
The topics that I'll be pursuing are (1) interactions where agents' actions are correlated and (2) interactive epistemics when the state space is not fully known. I shall also be pleased to join Richard Bradley in looking back on some old tenets of Utility Theory.