Prof Isaac Ehrlich
Isaac Ehrlich joined HKUST in 1992, he has previously served in University of Chicago, the Tel Aviv University, the University of Virginia, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. In 2002 He was awarded an honorary PhD degree from the University of Orleans, France, for his contributions to economics science.
He is now Distinguished Professor of Economics, Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise in the School of Management, and Chair of the Economics Department at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York (SUNY). He also serves as director of the UB Center for Human Capital, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research Health and Aging programs, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Capital, published by the University of Chicago press. He has also served in many public posts in US and while he was in Hong Kong.
His areas of research cover a wide gamut of applications of economic theory to human behavior and social institutions including crime and corruption, law and economics, insurance and self-protection, information and advertising, longevity and value of life, old-age insurance, and economic growth and development. A major theme of his current work is the role of knowledge and human capital in endogenous growth, demographic changes, income distribution, asset management and the performance of financial markets, health and economic growth, and immigration and human capital.
His research focuses on the role of human capital and social institutions as direct facilitators of economic growth.
This will give a glimpse into his life which consists of much work and little sleep, but a lot of travel as well.