Alan Kirman

Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Aix-Marseille III and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society, awarded the Humboldt Prize, and made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. His research has recently focused on the relationship between individual and collective economic behaviour.
He has worked on general equilibrium theory, international commerce, game theory and mathematics, information, welfare and public decision-making economics. He has published 150 articles in scientific journals. He is the author of two books and has one forthcoming with Routledge this summer entitled Complex Economics: Individual and Collective Rationality. He is Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.