Zvi Griliches | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 September 1930 |
| Died | 4 November 1999 (aged 69) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Economics |
| Influences | Arnold Harberger |
| Contributions | Theoretical and applied econometrics |
| Awards | John 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.