Background
Frank Hahn was born into an intellectual Central European family living in Berlin in 1925.
His father was a chemist and writer. The family moved to Prague in 1931, leaving in 1938 for England.
Frank Hahn was born into an intellectual Central European family living in Berlin in 1925.
His father was a chemist and writer. The family moved to Prague in 1931, leaving in 1938 for England.
Frank Hahn received his doctoral degree in economics at the London School of Economics (University of London) in 1951 where his dissertation supervisors had been Nicholas Kaldor and Lionel Robbins.
After lecturing at the University of Birmingham, he moved to Cambridge University as Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics and Fellow of Churchill College (1960–66).
Having obtained a professorship, he taught at the London School of Economics (1967–72) and then returned to the University of Cambridge (1972–92). On his retirement he was appointed Professore Ordinario at the University of Siena, Italy. Here he directed the doctoral programme in economics (1990–1996).
Hahn is now Emeritus Professor at Cambridge. He has been Visiting Professor at Harvard University, the MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Hahn was influenced by the writing of economist John Hicks.
"The Share of Wages in the Trade Cycle"
"The Share of Wages in National Income"
"The Rate of Interest in General Equilibrium Analysis"
"Gross Substitutes and the Dynamic Stability of General Equilibrium"
"The Patinkin Controversy"
"The Stability of Growth Equilibrium"
"Money, Dynamic Stability and Growth"
"A Stable Adjustment Process for a Competitive Economy"
"A Theorem on Non-Tatonnement Stability"
"On the Stability of a Pure Exchange Equilibrium"
"The Stability of the Cournot Oligopoly Solution"
"On the Disequilibrium Behavior of a Multi-Sectoral Growth Model"
"The Theory of Economic Growth: A survey"
"On Some Problems of Proving the Existence of an Equilibrium in a Monetary Economy"
"Equilibrium Dynamics with Heterogeneous Capital Goods"
"On Warranted Growth Paths"