Jerry Richard Green (born December 15, 1946) is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at

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. He is known for his research in economic theory, as well as writing the most commonly used microeconomic theory for graduate school with

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Biography

Green received his bachelor's degree from the

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in 1967 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1970. He then joined Harvard's economics faculty. He was Harvard's Provost from 1992 to 1994 and chaired the economics department from 1984 to 1987. He is a recipient of the J. Kenneth Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching. He is a Senior Fellow at the

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and a fellow of the

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. He was elected fellow of the

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in 1994 and fellow of the

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in 2012.

References

External links

Green's homepage at Harvard Business School

Microeconomic Theory at Oxford University Press
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