Lawrence Blume
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Economics, Cornell University
Professor of Information Science, Cornell University
Lawrence E. Blume is a professor of Information Science and serves as the Charles F. and Barbara D. Weiss Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is also Distinguished Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics. He is a Visiting Research Professor at IHS and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute’s steering committee.
He teaches and conducts research in decision theory, general equilibrium theory, and game theory, and also has research projects on network design.
A Fellow of the Econometric Society, he received an BA in Economics from Washington University and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Blume was one of the general editors of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, to which he also contributed several articles on economic theory.
