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Sam Peltzman on Harold Demsetz

I have just learned of Harold Demsetz’s death.  I knew he had been in decline for some time, but the news still occasioned a great sadness.  Harold was a major influence on me and on the world at large.  It is this larger significance of his work that I want to emphasize here.  We have […]

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Lee Ohanian in the Wall St Journal

Nearly half of millennials say they prefer socialism to capitalism, but what do they mean? “My policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told “60 Minutes.” Yet Sweden’s experiment with socialist policies was disastrous, and its economic success in recent decades is a […]

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Ben Klein on Harold Demsetz

Harold Demsetz, UCLA Professor of Economics since 1971, died on January 4, 2019 at the age of 88.  A grandchild of immigrants from eastern Europe, Harold grew up in a poor neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, where he met his surviving and loving wife Rita.  He originally attended forestry school at the University […]

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In Memory of Harold Demsetz

Harold Demsetz was a Professor of Economics at UCLA from 1971 until his retirement (if he ever really retired). He was the Arthur Andersen Chair in Business Economics and chaired the UCLA Department of Economics from 1978-1980. He was also elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But the most important thing about […]

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John Riley On Harold Demsetz

Professor Harold Demsetz will be greatly missed by all who were either his friends, his students, his colleagues, or, in my case, all three! Harold grew up on the West Side of Chicago. He received his B.A. (1953) and MBA (1954) from the University of Illinois.  In 1958 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics […]