Karl Shell

Economist, Award Winner

1938 –

59

Who is Karl Shell?

Karl Shell is an American theoretical economist, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics.

Shell received an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1965 at Stanford University, where he studied under Nobel Prize in Economics winner Kenneth Arrow and Hirofumi Uzawa.

Shell is currently Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He previously served on the economics faculty at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania.

Shell has been editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, generally regarded as the leading journal in theoretical economics, since its inception in 1968.

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Born
May 10, 1938
Paterson
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University
    Mathematics
    ( - 1960)
  • PhD, Stanford University
    Economics
    ( - 1965)
Lived in
  • Ithaca

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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