Glazer, Amihai 1950-

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GLAZER, Amihai 1950-

PERSONAL: Born March 22, 1950, in Haifa, Israel; U.S. citizen; married Debra Goodman, August 22, 1976; children: Danielle. Education: Cornell University, B.A., 1974; Yale University, Ph.D., 1978.

ADDRESSES: Home—12 Urey Ct., Irvine, CA 92612. Office—Department of Economics, University of California—Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of California—Irvine, professor of economics, 1979—. Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, visiting professor, 1991-92.

WRITINGS:

(With Jack Hirchleifer) Price Theory and Applications, 5th edition, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1992.

Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 1, 2001, Mary Carroll, review of Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails, p. 1433.

Journal of Political Analysis and Management, spring, 2002, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., review of Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails, p. 314.

Political Science Quarterly, spring, 2003, Hugh Heclo, "What Government Can Do," p. 138.