HIRSCH, Werner Z.

HIRSCH, Werner Z. American, b. 1920. Genres: Economics, Law, Regional/Urban planning. Career: University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Economics, 1963-, Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 1963-73. Consultant, Rand Corp., 1958-. Member, Board of Dirs., California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, 1973-. Fiscal Affairs Officer, U.N., 1951-52; Economist, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1952-53; Assistant Research Director, St. Louis Metropolitan Survey, 1956-57; Economist, Resources for the Future Inc., Washington, DC, 1958-59. Publications: Introduction to Modern Statistics, 1957; (with J.L. Kunen, L.J. Duhl and R. Park) Universities and Foundations Search for Relevance, 1968; (with E.W. Segelhorst and M.J. Marcus) Spillover on Public Education Costs and Benefits, 2nd ed., 1969; The Economics of State and Local Government, 1970; (with S. Sonenblum) Selecting Regional Information for Government Planning and Decision Making, 1970; (with others) Fiscal Pressures on the Central City, 1971; (with M.J. Marcus and R.M. Gay) Program Budgeting for Primary and Secondary Public Education, 1972; Financing Public First-Level and Second-Level Education in the U.S., 1973; Urban Economic Analysis, 1973; (with S. Sonenblum and R. Teoples) Local Government Program Budgeting: Theory and Practice, 1974; Recent Experience with National Planning in the United Kingdom, 1977; Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis, 1979, 3rd ed., 1999; (with R. Ferber) Social Experimentation and Economic Policy, 1982; Urban Economics, 1984; (with A.M. Rufolo) Public Finance and Expenditures under Federalism, 1990; Privatizing Government Services, 1991; (with L. Weber) Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium, 1999; Governance in Higher Education, 2001; As the Walls of Academia Are Tumbling Down, 2002. EDITOR: (and contrib.) Urban Life and Form, 1963; Elements of Regional Accounts, 1964; (with R. Baisden, and contrib.) California's Future Economic Growth, 1965; (and contrib.) Regional Accounts for Policy Decisions, 1966; (and contrib.) Inventing Education for the Future, 1967; (with S. Hale) Agenda for the Los Angeles Area in 1970, 1969; (and contrib.) Los Angeles: Viability and Prospects for Metropolitan Leadership, 1971; (with S. Sonenblum, and contrib.) Governing Urban America in the 1970s, 1973.