Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofumi Uzawa
宇沢 弘文
Born(1928-07-21)July 21, 1928
DiedSeptember 18, 2014(2014-09-18) (aged 86)
NationalityJapanese
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo (B.Math, 1951)
Stanford University
Tohoku University (Ph.D., 1962)
InfluencesShokichi Iyanaga
Joichi Suetsuna
Kenneth Arrow
Hajime Kawakami
Academic work
DisciplineMathematical economics
InstitutionsStanford University
University of California at Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Tokyo
Chuo University
Doshisha University
Doctoral studentsDavid Cass
Karl Shell
Miguel Sidrauski
Notable ideasUzawa two-sector growth model
Uzawa iteration
Uzawa condition
Integrability of demand
AwardsPerson of Cultural Merit (1983)
Order of Culture (1997)
Blue Planet Prize (2009)
Website

Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢 弘文, Uzawa Hirofumi; July 21, 1928 – September 18, 2014) was a Japanese economist.