Menahem E. Yaari

Menahem E. Yaari (; born April 26, 1935) is an Israeli economist who has been the S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was the President of the Open University of Israel from 1992 to 1997. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987, the Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences in 1994, and the EMET Prize in the Social Sciences in 2012.

Biography Yaari was born in Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine.

From 1967 to 1970 he was a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Economics and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

From 1968 to 1975 Yaari was an editor of Econometrica.

Yaari was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987, the Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences in 1994, and the EMET Prize in the Social Sciences in 2012.

He was the director of Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. Thereafter, he was the President of the Open University of Israel from 1992 to 1997, following Nehemia Levtzion, and was succeeded by Eliahu Nissim.

Selected publications Yaari, M. E. (1965). Uncertain lifetime, life insurance, and the theory of the consumer. The Review of Economic Studies, 32(2), 137-150. Yaari, M. E. (1987). The dual theory of choice under risk. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 95-115. Yaari, M. E., & Bar-Hillel, M. (1984). On dividing justly. Social choice and welfare, 1(1), 1-24.