系列讲座(51)Prof. Harold Demsetz (UCLA)
The Guanghua School of Management
Peking University
You are cordially invited to the following seminar jointly hosted by the
Department of Applied Economics and the Department of Strategic Management
Topic: Corporate Governance and Insider Trading
Venue: Room 119, GSM building
Time: 2:00-3:30pm, Oct. 12, 2007 (Friday)
Presenter: Prof. Harold Demsetz (UCLA)
Professor Demsetz received a BA degree from the University of Illinois in 1953,
MBA (1954) and Ph.D. (1959) degrees from Northwestern University. His teaching
career began at the University of Michigan in 1958 and continued at the
University of California at Los Angeles until 1963. In 1963 he joined the
faculty of the University of Chicago, where he remained until 1971, returning
in that year to the University of California. He chaired UCLA' s Department of
Economics from 1978 through 1980. From 1984 to 1995, he held the Arthur
Andersen UCLA Alumni Chair in Business Economics and Directed UCLA's Business
Economics program.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a
Director of the Mont Pelerin Society, and a past (1996) President of the
Western Economics Association International. Northwestern University, in 1994,
awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, and, in 1996, he received
an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science from Francisco Marroquin University.
His name appears in "Who's Who in America" and similar directories.
Listed in Mark Blaugh's "Great Economists Since Keynes", Professor Demsetz's
research is focused on property rights, the business firm, and problems in
monopoly, competition, and antitrust. The recipient of the Western Economics
Association Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981, he is the author of numerous
articles, three books, and three published monographs containing honorary
lectures. The monographs contain his F. De Vries Honorary Lectures in Economic
Theory given at Erasmus University in the Netherlands in 1981, his Uppsala
Lectures in Business given at Uppsala University in Sweden in 1991, and his
Crafoord Lecture on U.S. Antitrust Policy given at Lund University in Sweden in
1992. His Presidential Address to the Western Economics Association, titled "
The Primacy of Economics: An Explanation of the Comparative Success of
Economics in the Social Sciences", appeared in Economic Inquiry (January, 1997).
His recent book, The Economics of the Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries, was
published by Cambridge University Press in 1995 and has been translated into
Spanish and Chinese.