Aron Katsenelinboigen Faculty Profile

Aron Katsenelinboigen
Professor of Operations and Information Management

Doctor en Sciences Economiques, Institute of the National Economy, Moscow, 1966; PhD, Institute of Economics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957

Research Areas
Aesthetic and its applications to decision making; creation; economic invariants; indeterminism; systems theory

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1977-present (Chairperson, Social Systems Sciences Department, 1984-86). Previous appointments: Moscow State University, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Visiting appointments: Princeton University; University of Pennsylvania; University of California, Berkeley

Other Positions
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1986-present

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 1997

Representative Publications
Indeterministic Economics. New York: Praeger, 1992.

The Concept of Indeterminism: Its Applications, Economics, Social Systems, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence & Aesthetics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997.

Evolutionary Change: Toward a Systemic Theory of Development and Maldevelopment. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1997.