Peter J. Hammond (economist)

For the British television writer, see Peter J. Hammond.
Peter Hammond
Born (1945-05-09) 9 May 1945
Institution Stanford University
Field Economic theory
Alma mater Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Peter Jackson Hammond (born 9 May 1945),[1] is the Marie Curie Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Warwick[2] and an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University.[3] He has made numerous significant contributions to the advancement of Economic Theory.

Education

His undergraduate study was in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) from 1964–67.[4] He continued at Cambridge as a Research Student in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Politics (1967–1969) and went on to earn a PhD in Economics there in 1974.

Career

During his career, he has held numerous positions, he was a Professor of Economics at Stanford University from 1979–2007 (Emeritus from April 2007). He has held positions at the London School of Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford, Princeton University, the University of Essex, Australian National University, University of Bonn, University of Bristol, University of Kiel, the National University of Singapore and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to name some.[2]

Honours and awards

He has been the recipient of various honours and awards. He was elected to a fellowship of the Econometric Society in 1977 and held a Guggenheim Fellowship from 1987–88.[2] He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.[5]

He was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Kiel and the University of Oslo.

Selected bibliography

Books

Chapters in books

References

  1. "Hammond, Peter J., 1945-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 July 2014. (Peter Jackson Hammond, born 9 May 1945)
  2. 1 2 3 "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). September 2007.
  3. "Peter Hammond's Home page".
  4. HAMMOND, Prof. Peter Jackson, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  5. http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/hammond.cfm
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