Avner Greif

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Avner Greif is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences.

Greif received his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University, where Joel Mokyr acted as his supervisor, in 1989 and started his career at Stanford University in 1989 until he received tenure in 1994. In 1998 he received a 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation. His works deal with economic history and role of institutions in economic development, including analysis of trade in medieval Europe and Levant.

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1955

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Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
(2004 - )
Professor of Economic {sic}, Stanford University
(1999 - )
Associate Professor, Stanford University
(1994 - 1998)
Associate Professor, Stanford University
(1989 - 1994)
Visiting Tel Aviv University and the University of Tokyo, Tel Aviv University

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on July 23, 2013

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