Geir Asheim

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Geir Bjarne Asheim (born 3 October 1953) is a Norwegian economist and professor of economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo.[1]

Asheim obtained his cand.mag. degree from the University of Bergen in 1975[2] and his Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979. He mainly works in economic theory, publishing in journals such as Journal of Economic Theory[3] and Theoretical Economics.[4] Most of his research output is theoretical work relating to climate economics, intergenerational equity, game theory or national accounting.

He became a professor at the University of Oslo in 1994,[2] and also adjunct professor at Agder University College in 1995.[5]

Asheim has authored two books Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability and The Consistent Preferences Approach to Deductive Reasoning in Games, both of which were published by Springer Publishing. He is an editor for Social Choice and Welfare.[6] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 2014 and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists from 2020.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Geir B. Asheim - Department of Economics". UiO. University of Oslo. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Geir Bjarne Asheim 50 år 3. oktober" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 12 September 2003.
  3. ^ Asheim, Mitra, Bucholz, Withagen (2013). "Characterizing the sustainability problem in an exhaustible resource model" (PDF). Journal of Economic Theory. 148 (5): 2164–2182. doi:10.1016/j.jet.2013.04.019. S2CID 2754782. Retrieved 8 July 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Asheim, Zuber (2014). "Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population". Theoretical Economics. 9 (3): 629–650. doi:10.3982/TE1338. hdl:10419/150233. S2CID 9505504.
  5. ^ "Kinserdal til Høgskolen i Agder", Aftenposten 17 January 1995
  6. ^ "Social Choice and Welfare – Editors". Springer. Retrieved 8 July 2021.