Background
SCITOVSKY, Tibor was born in 1910 in Budapest, Hungary.
SCITOVSKY, Tibor was born in 1910 in Budapest, Hungary.
Dr Juris, University Budapest, 1932. Master of Science London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1938.
Clerk, Hungarian General Creditbank, Budapest, 1934-1935. Research Economics, London & Cambridge Economics Service,
9. Economics, United States Department Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia, 1946.
Association Professor, Professor of Economics, Stanford University, 1946-1958. Professor, University California Berkeley, 1958-1968. Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 1965-1966.
Fellow, Development Centre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris,
8. Heinz Professor of Economics, Yale University
70. Eberle Professor Development Economics, Stanford University, 1970-1976.
Professor, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom,
8. Visiting Professor, University California Santa Cruz, 1978-1982. Prof, recalled to duty, Stanford University, 1978-1981.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1983. Retired, since 1983. Editorial Board, American Economic Review.
Welfare and Competition 1951, Economic Theory and Western European Integration 1958, Papers on Welfare and Growth 1964, Industry and Trade in some Developing Countries (with I. Little and M. Scott) 1970, Money and the Balance of Payments 1969, The Joyless Economy 1976, Human Desire and Economics Satisfaction 1986. Leisure i/iterest: music.
I find it easier and more meaningful to list my concerns rather than my contributions — perhaps because the latter have been too simple-minded, fragmented and scattered to mention. My main concern has been to guard against the economist’s predilection for an oversimplified and overmechanical approach by explaining the behaviour of economic variables in terms of the underlying human actions, reactions, their motivation and often by the asymmetries between buyers and sellers, price makers and price takers, and between the same person’s upward and downward adjustment of prices or quantities. The nature and forms of competition, saving behaviour, balance-of-payments adjustment, inflation, stagflation are among the many and varied subjects on
which that approach throws new light.
My other main concern has been to point out some of the anomalies of the traditional theory of rational consumer behaviour and to facilitate and encourage the introduction of physiological psychology into the field.
British Academy, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
Married 1st Anne Marie Aiekelin 1942 (divorced). Married 2nd Elisabeth Vida in 1968.