Werner Zvi HIRSCH

Background

Hirsch, Werner Zvi was born on June 10, 1920 in Linz, Germany. Son of Waldemar and Toni (Morgenstern) Hirsch. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1955.

Education

Bachelor of Science with highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1949.

Career

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.

Achievements

• Werner Zvi Hirsch has been listed as a noteworthy economist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Elements of Regional Accounts: Papers Presented at the Conference on Regional Accounts, 1962, sponsored by the Committee on Regional Accounts.

    (Topics: Flows and the Analysis of Regional development, R...)

  • Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium (American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Ed) (Hardback) - Common

    (In May 1998, the participants in the Glion Colloquium gat...)

  • Law and Economics, Third Edition: An Introductory Analysis

    (Since the publication of the second edition of Law and Ec...)

  • Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis

    (This second edition takes into account the major developm...)

  • Social Experimentation and Economic Policy (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature)

    (Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists ...)

  • Urban Life and Form
  • Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis By Hirsch, Werner Z ( Author ) Hardcover 1999
  • Introduction To Modern Statistics
  • Law and Economics, Third Edition: An Introductory Analysis by Werner Z. Hirsch (1999-06-28)
  • Social Experimentation and Economic Policy (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature) by Robert Ferber (1981-12-31)
  • Law and Economics, Third Edition: An Introductory Analysis 3rd edition by Hirsch, Werner Z. (1999) Hardcover
  • Urban Economic Analysis (Economics handbook series)
  • Economics of State & Local Governments (Economics Handbook Series)
  • Local Government Program Budgeting: Theory and Practice, with Special Reference to Los Angeles (Praeger special studies in U.S. economic, social, and political issues)
  • Recent experiences with national planning in the United Kingdom: A study
  • Program Budgeting for Primary and Secondary Public Education: Current Status and Prospects in Los Angeles
  • Privatizing Government Services: An Economic Analysis of Contracting Out by Local Governments (Monograph and Research Series, 54)

Views

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.

Membership

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.

Interests

• 321 Fiscal Theory and Policy. 325 Inter-governmental Finance. 931 Urban Economics.

Connections

Married Hilde E. Zwirn, October 30, 1945. Children: Daniel, Joel, Ilona.

Father:

Waldemar Hirsch

Mother:

Toni (Morgenstern) Hirsch

Spouse:

Hilde E. Zwirn

child:

Ilona Hirsch

child:

Daniel Hirsch

child:

Joel Hirsch