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who has been the S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at

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and was the President of the

from 1992 to 1997. He was awarded the

in 1987, the

in the Social Sciences in 1994, and the EMET Prize in the Social Sciences in 2012.

Biography

Yaari was born in

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. He obtained a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from

in 1958, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Statistics from

in 1962. From 1962 to 1967 Yaari was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at

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in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at the university. From 1967 to 1970 he was a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Economics and Philosophy of Science at

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. Since 1971 Yaari has been the S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at the university (emeritus since 1998), and from 1971 to 1973 he was the Chairman of the university's Department of Economics. From 1968 to 1975 Yaari was an editor of ''

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''. Since 1969 he has been a Fellow of the

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, since 1988 Yaari has been a foreign Member of the

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, since 1991 he has been a Member of the

, since 1993 he has been a foreign honorary member of the

American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics, with approximately 23,000 members. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Review, an ...

, since 1996 he has been a Fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He has been the founding Member of The International Scientific Council of IPSO (Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization) since 2003, the President of the

from 2004 to 2010, and a Member of the

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since 2008. Yaari was awarded the

in 1987, the

in the Social Sciences in 1994, and the EMET Prize in the Social Sciences in 2012. He was the director of

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. Thereafter, he was the President of the

from 1992 to 1997, following Nehemia Levtzion, and was succeeded by Eliahu Nissim.

References

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