Biography:Richard E. Quandt

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Short description: Hungarian-American economist

Richard Emeric Quandt (born 1 June 1930, in Budapest) is a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning economist who analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Orley Ashenfelter.[1]

Quandt served as a professor of economics at Princeton University.[2] In 1979 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.[4][5] He is current senior adviser to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[6]

Quandt is a member of the American Association of Wine Economists and editor of their journal, the Journal of Wine Economics. In 2012, he was involved in organizing a blind tasting event comparing wines produced in France with several wines produced in New Jersey held at Princeton University and known as the "Judgment of Princeton."

He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.[7]

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Published works

  • The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe: A Personal Perspective on Philanthropy and Technology Transfer Oxford University Press 2002 ISBN:0-19-514669-7
  • (with Andrew Lass). Library automation in transitional societies: lessons from Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN:0-19-513262-9.
  • The Collected Essays of Richard E. Quandt (Economists of the Twentieth Century) Edward Elgar Publishing 1992 ISBN:1-85278-605-1
  • Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies Praeger Paperback 1991 ISBN:0-275-94103-5
  • (with James M. Henderson). Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach Mcgraw-Hill College 1980 ISBN:0-07-028101-7

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