E. Roy Weintraub | |
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Born |
New York City |
22 March 1943
Nationality | American |
Institution | Duke University |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
Influences |
Sidney Weintraub (father) Lawrence Klein Herbert Wilf |
Eliot Roy Weintraub (born March 22, 1943) is an American mathematician, economist, and, since 1976, professor of economics at Duke University. He was born in 1943 in New York City.
Weintraub has published numerous articles in professional journals and other edited volumes. His teaching and research have traced the connection between mathematics and economics at technical, methodological or historical, and micro and macro levels. A broad theme of later work has been the transformation of economics from a historical to a mathematical discipline, as in General Equilibrium Analysis (1985),Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge (1991),How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (2002)., and "Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit" co-authored with Till Düppe (2014). The latter was awarded the 2016 Joseph J. Spengler prize for best book by the history of economics society.
He also wrote for and edited Towards a History of Game Theory (1993) and more recently two historiographic volumes. His books have been variously translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hungarian, and Italian.
Currently he is Associate Editor of the journals History of Political Economy and the Economics Bulletin, and Co-Editor of the book series Science and Cultural Theory.
He has held visiting positions at the University of Hawaii, UCLA, the Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Bristol, and the University of Venice. At Duke he was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics from 1972 to 1983, Chair of that department from 1983 to 1987, Acting Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences in 1987, Director of the Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science from 1995–1999, and has twice chaired the Academic Council. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has served terms on the Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure, the Academics Priorities Committee, the Faculty Compensation Committee, and has chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Resources. He served for many years as a pre-major advisor and a teacher of first-year seminars, and has been Director of the Honors Program for the Department of Economics, and Faculty Fellow in the former Edens Federation for Residential Life.