Oliver Hart
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Oliver Hart is an economist and professor at Harvard University.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Britain, he earned his B.A. in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge in 1969, his M.A. in economics at Warwick University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University in 1974. He then became a fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a professor at the London School of Economics. In 1984, he returned to the U.S., where he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, since 1993, at Harvard University. He was chairman of the Harvard economics department from 2000 to 2003.
He is a British citizen. He is married to writer Rita B. Goldberg and has two sons.
[edit] Academics
He is an expert on industrial organization, law and economics, game theory, contract theory, and the theory of the firm.
[edit] Books
- Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure (Oxford University Press, 1995).
[edit] Selected Articles
- "Monopolistic Competition in a Large Economy with Differentiated Commodities," Review of Economic Studies 46 (January 1979) 1-30, reprinted in Microeconomic Theories of Imperfect Competition: Old Problems and New Perspectives (J.-F. Gabszewicz & J.-F. Thisse eds., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 1999).
- "Perfect Competition and Optimal Product Differentiation," Symposium on Noncooperative Approaches to Perfect Competition, Journal of Economic Theory 22 (April 1980) 279-312.
- "An Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem" (with Sanford J. Grossman), Econometrica (January 1983) 7-46.
- "The Market Mechanism as an Incentive Scheme," Bell Journal of Economics 14 (Autumn 1983) 366-82.
- "Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium: An Overview of Recent Work," in Frontiers of Economics (Kenneth Arrow & S. Hokapohja eds., Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1985).
- "Monopolistic Competition in the Spirit of Chamberlin: A General Model," Review of Economic Studies 52 (November 1985) 529-546.
- "Monopolistic Competition in the Spirit of Chamberlin: Special Results," Economic Journal 95 (December 1985) 889-908, reprinted in The Economics of Product Differentiation (J. Thisse & G. Norman eds., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 1994).
- "The Theory of Contracts," in Advances in Economic Theory, Fifth World Congress (T. Bewley ed., Cambridge University Press 1987).
- "Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation" (with John Moore), Econometrica 56(4) (July 1988).
- "Contract Renegotiation and Coasian Dynamics" (with Jean Tirole), Review of Economic Studies 55 (July 1988).
- "Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm" (with John Moore), Journal of Political Economy 98(6) (1990).
- "The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons" (with Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny), Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(4) (1997) 1126-61.
