Lester G. Telser

Lester Greenspan Telser (born in 1931) is an American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College of the University of Chicago.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he is a member of the faculty sinces 1958.

His works include research on the Theory of the core; Federal Reserve policy and integer programming.

[edit] Awards, fellowships

St. Clair Drake award for outstanding scholarship from Roosevelt University, 2005
Fellow Econometric Society, 1967
American Statistical Association Fellow,1968

Futures Trading and the Storage of Cotton and Wheat, Journal of Political Economy, 1958
Why Should Manufacturers Want Fair Trade?, Journal of Law and Economics, 1960
How Much Does it Pay Whom to Advertise?, American Economic Review, vol. 51, pp194-205, 1961
Advertising and Competition, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 72, pp537-562, 1964
Supply and Demand for Advertising Messages, American Economic Review, vol 56, pp457-466, 1966
An Infinite-Horizon Discrete-Time Quadratic Program as Applied to a Monopoly Problem, with R. Graves, Econometrica, 1967
Economics of Advertising, In: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, pp106-111, 1968
Functional Analysis in Mathematical Economics, with R. L. Graves, 1972.
Competition, Collusion and Game Theory, 1972.
Organized Futures Markets: Cost and benefits, with H.N. Higginbotham, Journal of Political Economy, 1977
Economic theory and the Core, 1978.
A Theory of Self-Enforcing Agreements, Journal of Business, 1980
A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition, 1987
Joint Ventures of Labor & Capital, 1997
"Classic Futures: Lessons from the Past for the Electronics Age", 2000
The Core Theory in Economics: Problems and Solution, 2007