Oliver Hart (economist)

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Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart (born 1948) is an economist and the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Biography

Born in Britain, Hart earned his B.A. in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge in 1969, his M.A. in economics at University of Warwick 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 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Econometric Society, of the American Finance Association, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and vice president of the American Economic Association, and has several honorary degrees.

Hart is an American citizen. He is married to writer Rita B. Goldberg, and has two sons and two grandsons. He is the son of the pioneering medical researcher Philip D'Arcy Hart and his wife Ruth Meyer, a medical gynaecologist.

Academics

He is an expert on contract theory, theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations.He has used his theoretical work on firms in two legal cases as a government expert (Black and Decker v. U.S.A. and WFC Holdings Corp. (Wells Fargo) v. U.S.A.).

Books

Selected articles

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