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Hirsch, Werner Zvi was born on June 10, 1920 in Linz, Germany. Arrived in United States, 1946, naturalized, 1955. Son of Waldemar and Toni (Morgenstern) Hirsch.
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For several years, a distinguished group of social scientists the Committee on Regional Accounts has worked to develop a body of research and data that can produce a system of economic accounts for regions and metropolitan areas. Essentially, such a system would serve purposes similar to those already successfully served by the national economic accounts; however at sub national levels the problems are more complex. The essays and comments presented here result from the Committee's second conference. Each reflects the stimulating and experimental nature of current research concerned with the interdependence between national, regional, and intra-regional economic activities, between public and private factors, between industry and commerce, and between places of work and residence. Taken as a whole, the essays provide a consistent methodology from which information can be organized to facilitate private and public decision making.
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Topics: Flows and the Analysis of Regional development, Regional income account estimates, public finance as an integral part of regional accounts, data for the public-finance sub-account, an accounts framework for metropolitan models, the use of intrametropolitan data, the measurement of human resources in a regional accounting framework, and manpower movements: A proposed approach to measurement.
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Since the publication of the second edition of Law and Economics in 1988, there have been major developments in economics, jurisprudence, and in the field of law and economics. These changes are reflected in the updated and improved Third Edition. About 30% of the material in the new edition is different. The reader will find that the book incorporates recent scholarly contributions and court rulings on, for example, the Takings Clause of the constitution, the high-tech communication revolution in determining what constitutes a legal contract, no-fault insurance and its economic effects, and empirical cost-benefit analysis of environmental laws. Moreover, attention is paid to recent developments in anti-monopoly law as applied to high-tech information and communication firms. Students in management, policy, law, economics, and business programs, as well as law professionals, find the new edition of Law and Economics has kept up with the changing economic and legal climate. Key Features * Features new examinations of the takings clause of the Constitution, contract law, and tort law * Includes new cost-benefit analyses in chapters on criminal law and environmental law * Offers new insights into anti-monopoly laws, especially policies concerning high-tech industries
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This second edition takes into account the major developments in economics and jurisprudence that have occurred since the publication of the first edition. A new chapter has been added on anti-discrimination law and such topics as adverse possession, rent control, medical malpractice, product reliability, and defense against criminal prosecution have been reexamined in the light of new theoretical developments and case studies. Environmental law and a careful comparison of alternative methods to control the environment are included.
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Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real world. Instead of testing policies by analytical methods or by laboratory simulation, the policies are tested on people who would be affected were these policies implemented. The authors describe how such social experiments are set up and carried out, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of social experimentation relative to other means of evaluating economic and social policies. The main part of the book is a review and a critical evaluation of the principal social experiments in economics that have been carried out in the United States, where this method has been used most extensively. The authors examine in detail the first large-scale experiment in the United States (the New Jersey Income Maintenance Experiment) and subsequent experiments with the labour force, electricity rates, and cash housing allowances. A consideration of the social utility of social experimentation follows, and the book closes with a set of recommendations on the conditions under which social experimentation might best be used in evaluating economic and social policies.
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In May 1998, the participants in the Glion Colloquium gathered in Switzerland to identify the major problems currently facing higher education in the United States and Western Europe, and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium is a collection of papers written by the participants of this colloquium.
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Hirsch, Werner Zvi was born on June 10, 1920 in Linz, Germany. Arrived in United States, 1946, naturalized, 1955. Son of Waldemar and Toni (Morgenstern) Hirsch.
Bachelor of Science with highest honors, University California, Berkeley, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1949.
Instructor economics University California, 1949-1951. Economic affairs officer United Nations, 1951-1952. Economist Brookings Institution, Washington, 1952-1953.
Assistant research director St. Louis Metropolitan Survey, 1956-1957. Professor economics Washington University, St. Louis, 1953-1963, director Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. Economist Resources for Future, Inc., Washington, 1958-1959.
Director Institute Government and Public Affairs University of California at Los Angeles, 1963-1973, professor economics, 1963—1990, professor emeritus, 1991—2009. Member senate academy council University California, 1985-1987, 89-91. Consultant Rand Corporation, 1958—1998, United States Senate Public Works Committee, 1972, California Senate Select Committee Structure and Administration Public Education, 1973, Joint Economic Committee Congress, 1975—1976, Organization of European Cooperation and Development, 1977—1980.
Committee to improve productivity Government Committee Economic Development, 1975—1976. Scholar in residence Rockefeller Study Center, 1978, pre-retirement relations committee. Chairman Los Angeles City Productivity Advisory Committee, 1982—1985.
Academy senate faculty welfare committee University California, 1984—1996. Chair University faculty welfare committee University of California at Los Angeles, 1985—1987, 1989—1991, member restructure task force, 1993—1995, long-range planning committee, 1995—1998, executive board academy senate, 1996—1999, emeritus, 2005—2009. Tansit research panel National Research Council, 1993—1996.
Member Glion Colloquium on Challenges Facing Higher Education, 1997—2009, International Steering Committee.
(Topics: Flows and the Analysis of Regional development, R...)
(In May 1998, the participants in the Glion Colloquium gat...)
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(Since the publication of the second edition of Law and Ec...)
(This second edition takes into account the major developm...)
(Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists ...)
Author: Introduction to Modern Statistics, 1957, Analysis of the Rising Costs of Education, 1959, Urban Life and Form, 1963, Elements of Regional Accounts, 1964, Program Budgeting, 1965, Regional Accounts for Public Decisions, 1966, Inventing Education for the Future, 1967, The Economics of State and Local Government, 1970, Regional Information for Government Planning, 1971, Fiscal Crisis of America's Central Cities, 1971, Program Budgeting for Primary and Secondary Public Education, 1972, Governing Urban America in the 1970s, 1973, Urban Economic Analysis, 1973, Local Government Program Budgeting: Theory and Practice, 1974, Recent Experiences with National Planning in the United Kingdom, 1977, Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis, 1979, 2d review edition, 1988, 3d review edition, 1999, Higher Education of Women: Essays in Honor of Rosemary Park, 1978, Social Experimentation and Economic Policy, 1981, The Economics of Municipal Labor Markets, 1983, Urban Economics, 1984, Economist's Role in Government at Risk, 1989, Public Finance and Expenditures Under Federalism, 1990, Privatizing Government Services, 1991, Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium, 1999, Renting, 2000, University High Tech Alliances in California: Gaines and Losses, 2000, Governance in Higher Education, 2001, As the Walls of Academia are Tumbling Down, 2002, Reinventing the Research University, 2004, Spillovers of University-High Tech Industry Alliances, 2005. Member editorial board: Journal American Statistical Association, 1958-1960. Member editorial board Pakistani Journal Applied Economics, since 1980, International Review Law and Economics, 1985-1988, Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1991-1994.
Author: California Policy Options, 2006, 2008-2009.
Application of microeconomic theory and econometrics to the development and estimation of progress functions, production and cost functions of urban governments, the process of metropolitan consolidation, and the effects of habitability laws and speedy eviction laws on the welfare of indigent tenants. Contributed to the emerging fields of regional input-output analysis, urban economic analysis, and law and economics. Also, analysis of the efficiency and distributional effects of revenue limitation measures.
President American Friends of Wilton Park, 1983—1985, 2001—2006, 2008—2009, 2009. Trustee University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1991—2003. Board directors Friends of Graphic Arts, 1974—1979, Midwest Research Institute, 1961—1963, California Council Environmental/Economics Balance, 1974—2009, California Foundation on Economy, 1979—1989, University California Retirement Systems, 1986—1994, Associate Students University of California at Los Angeles, 2000—2006, Bel Air Association, 2005—2009, University of California at Los Angeles Faculty Association, from 2006, Wilstein Institute, executive committee, 1993—1999.
Executive committee regional board Anti-Defamation League, 1986—2009. Board governors Edmund G. Brown Institute, 1981—1986. Governor University California Faculty Center, 1992—1994.
Member American Economic Association, American Farm Economics Association, International Biograph. Center (member advisory council since 1997), Western Regional Science Association (board directors, president 1978-1980), Law and Economics Association, Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics, Town Hall West (president 1978-1979), Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi., Oral History College Language Association Library Web.
Married Hilde E. Zwirn, October 30, 1945. Children: Daniel, Joel, Ilona.