Education
Princeton University. Yale University.
Princeton University. Yale University.
Among other contributions, he was known for applying cellular automata in the social sciences. Albin earned his Bachelor, from Yale College in 1956 and Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton in 1964, both in economics. He was a professor of Economics at New York University from 1960 to 1974, and Chairman of the Economics Department of John Jay College of the City University of New York from 1974 to 1991.
He taught and performed research at the Levy Economics Institute.
He was visiting professor at the University of Göttingen in 1979–1980, the University of California, Berkeley in 1972–1973, he taught at the Sorbonne, at Cambridge University (1968–1969), at the Institute of Advanced Studies (Vienna) (1977–1979). Additionally, he was a partner in the venture capital firm, the Unicorn group, for many years.
Progress Without Poverty: Socially Responsible Economic Growth New York: Basic, 1978. "The Analysis of Complex Socio-Economic Systems" Lexington, Massachusetts
: Lexington.