Lester G. Telser
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Lester G. Telser (born in 1931) is an American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College of the University of Chicago.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he is a member of the faculty sinces 1958.
His works include research on the Theory of the core; Federal Reserve policy and integer programming.
[edit] Awards, fellowships
- St. Clair Drake award for outstanding scholarship from Roosevelt University, 2005
- Fellow Econometric Society, 1968
[edit] Selected works
- Futures Trading and the Storage of Cotton and Wheat, Journal of Political Economy, 1958
- Why Should Manufacturers Want Fair Trade?, Journal of Law and Economics, 1960
- Advertising and Competition, Journal of Political Economy, 1964
- An Infinite-Horizon Discrete-Time Quadratic Program as Applied to a Monopoly Problem, with R. Graves, Econometrica, 1967
- Functional Analysis in Mathematical Economics, with R. Graves, 1972.
- Competition, Collusion and Game Theory, 1972.
- Organized Futures Markets: Cost and benefits, with H.N. Higginbotham, Journal of Political Economy, 1977
- Economic theory and the Core, 1978.
- A Theory of Self-Enforcing Agreements, Journal of Business, 1980
