Avner Greif

Avner Greif
Born1955
NationalityIsrael and U.S.
Academic career
FieldEconomic history
InstitutionStanford University
School or
tradition
New institutional economics
Alma materNorthwestern University
Tel Aviv University
Doctoral
advisor
Joel Mokyr[1]
John C. Panzar[1]
William Rogerson[1]

Avner Greif (/ɡrf/; born 1955) is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences.

Greif received his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University, where Joel Mokyr acted as his supervisor,[2] in 1989 and started his career at Stanford University in 1989 until he received tenure in 1994. In 1998 he received a 'genius grant'[3] from the MacArthur Foundation. His works deal with economic history and role of institutions in economic development, including analysis of trade in medieval Europe and Levant.

  1. ^ a b c Greif, Avner (1991). "The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". The Journal of Economic History. 51 (2): 459. doi:10.1017/s0022050700039097. S2CID 154791174.
  2. ^ "Avner Greif's Homepage at Stanford Department of Economics". Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
  3. ^ "1998 MacArthur Foundation Awards".