Masanao Aoki

Masanao Aoki
青木 正直
Born(1931-05-14)May 14, 1931
DiedJuly 24, 2018(2018-07-24) (aged 87)
Academic career
InstitutionUCLA
University of Illinois
FieldEconophysics
Applied macroeconomics
Alma materUCLA (Ph.D. 1960)
University of Tokyo (B.A. 1955)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Masanao Aoki (青木 正直, Aoki Masanao, May 14, 1931 – July 24, 2018) was a Japanese engineer and economist. He was a Professor emeritus of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles.

He earned a BA and MSc in physics from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD in engineering from UCLA in 1960.[1] He was a professor of engineering at UCLA and California–Berkeley from 1960 to 1974, before switching fields to economics in which he remained a professor until his retirement in 2002. Aoki's change of research areas is reflected in the two editions of his influential textbook, Optimization of Stochastic Systems. Originally published in 1967 it contained a rigorous treatment of optimal control methods in engineering,[2] whereas the second edition (published in 1989) was amended by numerous applications in economics. He died on July 24, 2018, aged 87.[3]

  1. ^ Aruka, Yuji; Gallegati, Mauro; Yoshikawa, Hiroshi (2015). "Special Issue in Honor of Masanao Aoki". Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. 10 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s11403-015-0153-9. S2CID 53701104.
  2. ^ Mortensen, R. E. (1971). "Optimization of Stochastic Systems (Masanao Aoki)". SIAM Rev. 13 (4): 579–581. doi:10.1137/1013111.
  3. ^ "青木正直氏が死去 米カリフォルニア大ロサンゼルス校名誉教授". 日本経済新聞 電子版 (in Japanese). 31 July 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-02.

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