Lester G. Telser

Lester Greenspan Telser (born January 3, 1931 in Chicago) is an American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago.^[1]

He is a graduate of Roosevelt University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956 and has been a member of the faculty since 1958.^[1]

His works include research on the theory of the core, Federal Reserve policy, and integer programming.^[1] Unusually for the Chicago school of economics, he also wrote about game theory as early as 1972.^[2]

Books

Functional Analysis in Mathematical Economics: Optimization Over Infinite Horizons (with Robert L. Graves, 1972).^[5]
Competition, Collusion, and Game Theory (1972).^[6]
Economic Theory and the Core (1978).^[7]
A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition (1987).^[8]
Theories of Competition (1988).^[9]
Joint Ventures of Labor and Capital (1997).^[10]
Classic Futures: Lessons from the Past for the Electronic Age.^[11]
The Core Theory in Economics: Problems and Solutions (2007).^[12]

^ ^a ^b ^c Faculty listing, University of Chicago Economics Department, retrieved 2010-01-07.
^ The Chicago School, History of Economic Thought web site, The New School, retrieved 2010-01-07.
^ Fellows of the Econometric Society as of July 2009, retrieved 2010-01-07.
^ ASA Fellows, retrieved 2010-01-07.
^ University of Chicago Press, 1972, ISBN 9780226791906.
^ Macmillan, 1972, ISBN 9780333136447; Aldine treatises in modern economics, 1972, ISBN 9780202060439; Transaction, 2007, ISBN 9780202309255.
^ University of Chicago Press, 1987, ISBN 9780226791913. University of Chicago Press, 1988, ISBN 9780226791937.
^ Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 9780521306195. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521022200.
^ North-Holland, 1988, ISBN 9780444012487.
^ University of Michigan Press, 1997, ISBN 9780472108664.
^ Risk, 2000, ISBN 9781899332922.
^ Routledge, 2007, ISBN 9780415701440; Taylor and Francis, 2009, ISBN 9780415493659.