Jack Hirshleifer
American economist and UCLA professor known for influential work in price theory, information economics, risk and uncertainty, cost–benefit analysis, and the economics of conflict; coauthor of Price Theory and Applications and The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information.
Books
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1. The Analytics Of Uncertainty And Information
A rigorous yet accessible overview of how uncertainty and information influence individual choices and market outcomes in microeconomics. It develops expected utility and Bayesian updating, examines risk and risk aversion, and evaluates the value of information with applications to insurance, portfolio selection, and investment. The analysis extends to asymmetric information—adverse selection, moral hazard, signaling, and screening—along with auctions, search, bargaining, and mechanism design. Throughout, it links formal models to economic intuition to explain incentives, contracts, and the functioning of markets under imperfect information.
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