Armen Albert Alchian (born April 12, 1914) is an American economist and an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alchian was born in Fresno, California into an Armenian-American family. He attended California State University, Fresno for two years before transferring to Stanford University in 1934, which awarded him the B.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1944). He was a statistician with the USA Army Air Corps, from 1942 to 1946.

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  • Armen Albert Alchian (born April 12, 1914) is an American economist and an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alchian was born in Fresno, California into an Armenian-American family. He attended California State University, Fresno for two years before transferring to Stanford University in 1934, which awarded him the B.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1944). He was a statistician with the USA Army Air Corps, from 1942 to 1946. In 1946, he joined the Economics Department at UCLA, where he spent the rest of his career. For many years, he was affiliated with the Rand Corporation. In 1996, he became a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. Alchian is the founder of the "UCLA tradition" in economics, a member of the Chicago school of economics, and one of the more prominent price theorists of the second half of the 20th century. He is the author of pathbreaking articles on information and uncertainty, and the theory of the firm. Through his writings on property rights and transaction costs, he is a founder of the new institutional economics. A surprising fraction of Alchian's writings have touched on topics conventionally viewed as macroeconomic: money, inflation, unemployment, and the theory of business investment. His writings are characterized by lucid witty exposition and a minimum of mathematical formalism. Alchian is the coauthor (with William Allen) of the curious and influential introductory economics text Exchange and Production. While the technical level of this text is unusually low, the demands it makes of the student's economic intuition are unusually high. Its content and organization differ radically from those of other American university economics texts written during the second half of the 20th century. This was the first American introductory text to discuss information, transaction costs, property rights, and a market economy as a discovery process. This text also contains the classic statement of what has come to be known as the Alchian-Allen Theorem. This proposition, colloquially known as "ship the good apples out," states that when output varies in quality, the lower quality output is consumed nearby while the higher quality output is shipped long distances. The reason is simple: transportation costs vary with the weight and bulk, but not the quality, of that which is transported. The added per-unit amount decreases the relative price of the higher-grade product.
  • Armen Albert Alchian ist ein US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Professor für Wirtschaft an der Universität von Los Angeles.
  • Armen Albert Alchian on yhdysvaltalainen taloustieteilijä. Fresnossa, Kaliforniassa syntyneellä Alchianilla on armenialaisia sukujuuria. Hän opiskeli kahden vuoden ajan Kalifornian osavaltiollisessa yliopistossa ennen siirtymistään Stanfordiin vuonna 1934. Hänestä tuli täysi professori Kalifornian yliopistossa Los Angelesissa (UCLA) vuonna 1958. Yksi Alchianin opiskelijoista oli vuoden 1990 Nobel-palkittu William Forsyth Sharpe. Alchian tunnetaan innokkaana golfinpelaajana. Hän oli myös ensimmäisiä UCLA:n taloustieteen osaston jäseniä, jotka ottivat omissa toimistoissaan käyttöönsä tietokoneen. Hän omaksui sähköpostin käytön jo sen varhaisessa vaiheessa.
  • アルメン・アルキアン（Armen Albert Alchian, 1914年4月12日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の経済学者、カリフォルニア大学名誉教授。産業組織論について研究した。
  • Armen Albert Alchian - amerykański ekonomista. Profesor honorowy na University of California w Los Angeles. Zanim zaczął wykładać na UCLA pracował jako ekonomista dla RAND Corporation. Współautor (razem z Williamem R. Allenem) klasycznego już podręcznika University Economics. Najważniejsze publikacje: 1950 “Niepewność, rozwój i teoria ekonomii” Journal of Political Economy 1959 “Koszty i produkcja” The Allocation of Economic Resources 1978 “Siły ekonomii w praktyce” (jeden z najbardziej znanych artykułów Alchiana) 1993 "Prawa własności” opublikowane w encyklopedii The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Liberty Fund
  • Армен Альберт Алчиан — американский экономист армянского происхождения. Учился в университете Калифорния Стейт (Фресно) и Стэнфорде, где получил степени бакалавра и доктора философии. С 1946 года преподавал в Калифорнийском университете, а до этого работал экономистом в корпорации Рэнд . Лауреат премии Адама Смита (2000).
  • 艾智仁（Armen A. Alchian，1914年4月12日－），美國著名經濟學家。任教於芝加哥大學，是張五常的老師。
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  • Armen Albert Alchian (born April 12, 1914) is an American economist and an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Alchian was born in Fresno, California into an Armenian-American family. He attended California State University, Fresno for two years before transferring to Stanford University in 1934, which awarded him the B.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1944). He was a statistician with the USA Army Air Corps, from 1942 to 1946.
  • Armen Albert Alchian ist ein US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Professor für Wirtschaft an der Universität von Los Angeles.
  • Armen Albert Alchian on yhdysvaltalainen taloustieteilijä. Fresnossa, Kaliforniassa syntyneellä Alchianilla on armenialaisia sukujuuria. Hän opiskeli kahden vuoden ajan Kalifornian osavaltiollisessa yliopistossa ennen siirtymistään Stanfordiin vuonna 1934. Hänestä tuli täysi professori Kalifornian yliopistossa Los Angelesissa (UCLA) vuonna 1958. Yksi Alchianin opiskelijoista oli vuoden 1990 Nobel-palkittu William Forsyth Sharpe. Alchian tunnetaan innokkaana golfinpelaajana.
  • アルメン・アルキアン（Armen Albert Alchian, 1914年4月12日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の経済学者、カリフォルニア大学名誉教授。産業組織論について研究した。
  • Armen Albert Alchian - amerykański ekonomista. Profesor honorowy na University of California w Los Angeles. Zanim zaczął wykładać na UCLA pracował jako ekonomista dla RAND Corporation. Współautor (razem z Williamem R. Allenem) klasycznego już podręcznika University Economics.
  • Армен Альберт Алчиан — американский экономист армянского происхождения. Учился в университете Калифорния Стейт (Фресно) и Стэнфорде, где получил степени бакалавра и доктора философии.
  • 艾智仁（Armen A. Alchian，1914年4月12日－），美國著名經濟學家。任教於芝加哥大學，是張五常的老師。
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