Elizabeth Hoffman (professor)

Elizabeth Hoffman ( born November 12, 1946 in Bryn Mawr, parish Wayne, Pennsylvania ) is an American economist and economic historian.

Life

Hoffman studied at school music, and then click History. In 1969 she reached a master's degree, in 1972 she completed her doctorate with the dissertation The Sources of Mortality Changes in Italy Since Unification to the Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1979 she received her PhD for a second time. At the California Institute of Technology, she received the dissertation Essays in Optimal Resource Allocation Under Uncertainty with Capacity Constraints a Ph.D. in the economy.

After her Ph.D. in history, she held the position of assistant professor of history at the University of Florida. After completing her Ph.D. in business, she was Assistant Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, associate professor of economics at Purdue University and then ordinary professor of economics at the University of Wyoming and the University of Arizona.

In 1993, she was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences at Iowa State University, where she worked as a professor of economics and psychology. In 1997, she was vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois in Chicago, where she also nachkam there teaching activities as a professor of history, economics, politics and psychology.

On 1 September 2000 Hoffman was the 20th President of the four campuses distributed University of Colorado. In 2005 she resigned after scientific controversies and scandals around the football team of the University. She returned to the Iowa State and was there in 2007 Vice-President.

Research

In addition to economic history Hoffman engaged in experimental economics. They also belonged to the movement Cilometrics, the historical research associated with mathematical methods.

Memberships and Honors

She was co-founder of The Cliometric Society, the Economic Science Association, of which she was president from 1989 to 1991 and the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics.

In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine