Zvi Griliches

Zvi Griliches
Born(1930-09-12)12 September 1930
Died4 November 1999(1999-11-04) (aged 69)
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Academic career
FieldEconomics
InfluencesArnold Harberger
ContributionsTheoretical and applied econometrics
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal (1965)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Hirsh Zvi Griliches (/ˈɡrɪlɪkəs/ GRIL-i-kəs; 12 September 1930 – 4 November 1999)[1] was a Lithuanian-born economist at Harvard University. The works by Zvi Griliches mostly concerned the economics of technological change, including empirical studies of diffusion of innovations and the role of R & D, patents, and education. In 2023 he had 126 publication listed in Web of Science and a Hirsch index of 49, which places him into 2% of most productive economics professors in the USA.