What is Herbert Scarf?
[[File:Herbert-Scarf-Yale.png|thumb|right|200px|Scarf in 2005]] '''Herbert Eli Scarf''' (July 25, 1930&nbsp;– November 15, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] economist and professor [[emeritus]] of [[Economics]] at [[Yale University]] (2010-2015). He was a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]]. He served as the president of the [[Econometric Society]] in 1983. He received both the [[Frederick W. Lanchester Prize|Frederick Lanchester Award]] in 1973 and the [[John von Neumann Medal]] in 1983 from the [[Operations Research Society of America]] and was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the [[American Economic Association]] in 1991. Scarf was born in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He studied at [[Princeton University]] and at [[Temple University]]. Scarf died at his home in [[Sag Harbor, New York]] from [[heart failure]], aged 85.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/business/herbert-scarf-an-economists-mathematician-dies-at-85.html?_r=1|title=Herbert Scarf, an Economist’s Mathematician, Dies at 85|publisher=The New York Times|date=November 21, 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} * [http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/~hes/ Personal web site] * [http://homepage.newschool.edu/~het/profiles/scarf.htm The works of Herbert Scarf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324174018/http://homepage.newschool.edu/~het/profiles/scarf.htm |date=2012-03-24 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Scarf, Herbert}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from heart failure]] [[Category:American economists]] [[Category:Educators from New York City]] [[Category:Scientists from New York City]] [[Category:Scientists from Philadelphia]] [[Category:Educators from Philadelphia]] {{US-bio-stub}}