什么是弗兰克·哈恩

弗兰克·哈恩（Frank Horace Hahn)是英国著名的一般均衡理论学家。剑桥大学经济学教授，丘吉尔学院研究员。他拥有几个其他大学的荣誉学位，是英国学院的研究员，美国国家科学院的成员。

弗兰克·哈恩于1925年出生于德国柏林，其父是德国一位颇具声望的学者和作家，1931年，哈恩举家迁往捷克，四年后，又随家迁往英国，第二次世界大战爆发后，哈恩中断学业，参加空军。战争结束后,他进入伦敦经济学院学习。1945和1950年先后在伦敦经济学院获理学士学位和博士学位。1960年转到剑桥大学，任《经济研究评论》主编(1963—1967年)。1968年当选计量经济学会会长，1986年参加英国皇家经济学会，而且是美国艺术与科学研究院的通讯院士。

哈恩深入研究了一般均衡的稳定性、惟一性，考察了多个市场竞争均衡的卖者喊价、非卖者喊价过程的稳定性条件，他在1971年与阿罗合著《竞争均衡分析》，该书是一般均衡领域的经典之作。哈恩在一般均衡框架内纳入货币方面也作出了重大贡献，他在序列经济（在离散时间中的一般均衡模型）中研究了货币的价值，并将交易费用引入一般均衡的分析；他研究了推测均衡，即个人行为影响经济环境的不完全竞争下的均衡问题，哈恩还对新古典增长理论作出了重大贡献。

弗兰克·哈恩的主要著作

主要著作有：《论经济学中的均衡概念》、《一般竞争分析》、《货币与通货膨胀》、《均衡与宏观经济学》、《货币、增长与稳定》等。

Frank Horace Hahn

Frank Horace Hahn (born 1925) is a British economist whose work has focussed on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and monetarism. A famous problem of economic theory, whether it is possible for money to have a positive value in a general equilibrium, is called “Hahn's Problem” after him.

Major Works

”The Share of Wages in the Trade Cycle”, Economic Journal, vol 60 (1950).

“The Share of Wages in National Income”, Oxford Economic Papers vol. 3 #2 (1951).

“The Rate of Interest in General Equilibrium Analysis”, Economic Journal (1955).

“Gross Substitutes and the Dynamic Stability of General Equilibrium”, Econometrica vol 26 (1958) pp 169-70.

“The Patinkin Controversy”, Review of Economic Studies vol. 19 (1960).

“The Stability of Growth Equilibrium”, Quarterly Journal of Economics vol. 74, pp 206-26 (1960).

“Money, Dynamic Stability and Growth”, Metroeconomica vol. 13 #11 (August 1961).

“A Stable Adjustment Process for a Competitive Economy”, Review of Economic Studies vol 39 pp 62-5 (1962).

“A Theorem on Non-Tatonnement Stability” with T.Negishi, Econometrica vol. 30 #3 (1962).

“On the Stability of a Pure Exchange Equilibrium”, International Economic Review, vol. 3 (May, 1962), 206-13.

“The Stability of the Cournot Oligopoly Solution”, Review of Economic Studies vol. 29 pp 329–33 (1962).

“On the Disequilibrium Behavior of a Multi-Sectoral Growth Model”, Economic Journal (1963)

“The Theory of Economic Growth: A survey”, with R.C.O.Matthews (1964), Economic Journal vol 74 pp 779-902 (1964).

“On Some Problems of Proving the Existence of an Equilibrium in a Monetary Economy” in Theory of Interest Rates (1965), edited by Hahn and Brechling.

“Equilibrium Dynamics with Heterogeneous Capital Goods” Quarterly Journal of Economics vol. 80 (1966) pp 633-46.

“On Warranted Growth Paths”, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 35, pp 175-84 (1968).

“On Money and Growth”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking vol. 1 #2 (1969).

“Some Adjustment Problems”, Econometrica vol. 38 #1 (January 1970).

General Competitive Analysis (1971), with K.J. Arrow.

“Equilibrium with Transactions Costs”, Econometrica vol. 39 #3 (1971).

“The Winter of Our Discontent”, Economica (1973).

“On Some Equilibrium Growth Paths” in Models of Economic Growth (1973), edited by Mirrlees and Stern.

“On Transactions Costs, Inessential Sequence Economics and Money”, Review of Economic Studies vol. 40 #4 (October 1973).

On the Notion of Equilibrium in Economics (1974).

“Revival of Political Economy: The wrong issues and the wrong arguments”, Economic Record vol. 51 pp 360-4 (1975).

“Keynesian Economics and General Equilibrium Theory: Reflections on some current debates” in Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics (1977), edited by Harcourt.

“Monetarism and Economic Theory”, Economica Vol. 47 #185 (1980).

“General Equilibrium Theory” in Crisis in Economic Theory (1981) edited by Bell and Kristol.

Money and Inflation (1982).

“Reflections on the Invisible Hand”, Lloyd's Bank Review, April 1982.

“The Neo-Ricardians”, Cambridge Journal of Economics (1982).

“Stability” in Handbook of Mathematical Econonomics (1982), edited by Arrow and Intriligator.

Equilibrium and Macroeconomics (1984).

Money, Growth and Stability (1985).

“Liquidity” in Handbook of Monetary Economics (1988), edited by Friedman and Hahn.

Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory (1995) with R.M. Solow.

“A Remark on Incomplete Market Equilibrium” in Markets, Information and Uncertainty (1999), edited by Chichilnisky.

“Notes on Sequence Economies, Transaction Costs and Uncertainty”, with K.J. Arrow Journal of Economic Theory vol. 86 #2 (1999).