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Claude Hillinger

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Claude Hillinger
Born(1930-06-27)27 June 1930
Died19 March 2020(2020-03-19) (aged 89)
NationalityGerman American
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
InstitutionsLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
Case Western Reserve University
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
City College of New York
InfluencesRobert Basmann
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Claude Hillinger (27 June 1930 – 19 March 2020) was a German-American economist. He was a professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1972 to 1995.[1]

Born in Berlin shortly before the Machtergreifung, Hillinger emigrated with his family to Turkey in 1937.[1] He grew up living in Istanbul and Ankara until 1948, when he moved to New York City.[1] Partly in evening courses, he attained his bachelor's degree and later an MBA from City College of New York in 1953 and 1959, respectively.[1] He then went on to earn a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1963. His dissertation, advised by Robert Basmann, contained econometric tests of Lloyd Metzler's inventory cycle model of the business cycle.[2]

After working as a lecturer at the University at Buffalo until 1966, Hillinger became an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In 1972, he moved back to Germany, becoming a professor of economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Hillinger was an advocate of utilitarian or cardinal voting systems (primarily combined approval voting) rather than ranked voting systems.[3][4][5][6]

Hillinger died on 19 March 2020, at the age of 89.[7]

Publications

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  • Unnatural science: The conflict between reason and ideology in economics and the other social sciences, Collected works of Claude Hillinger, Volume I Published 17 Nov 2015 by WEA Books
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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Prof. Claude Hillinger, PhD: Lebenslauf". LMU Munich.
  2. ^ Hillinger, Claude (1966). "An Econometric Model of Mild Business Cycles". The Manchester School. 34 (3): 269–284. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9957.1966.tb01052.x.
  3. ^ Hillinger, Claude (2005-05-01). "The Case for Utilitarian Voting". doi:10.2139/ssrn.732285. S2CID 12873115. SSRN 732285. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Hillinger, Claude (2004-11-01). "Utilitarian Collective Choice and Voting". doi:10.2139/ssrn.637521. hdl:10419/104127. S2CID 16161361. SSRN 637521. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Hillinger, Claude (2004-05-01). "Voting and the Cardinal Aggregation of Judgments". doi:10.2139/ssrn.548662. hdl:10419/104146. S2CID 67774001. SSRN 548662. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Hillinger, Claude (2004-10-01). "On the Possibility of Democracy and Rational Collective Choice". doi:10.2139/ssrn.608821. hdl:10419/104147. S2CID 2786601. SSRN 608821. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "Claude Hillinger". Traueranzeigen der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Retrieved 31 December 2023.