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Jeffrey M. Perloff

American economist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ19662611 ↗
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Jeffrey M. Perloff is an American economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most noted for his textbooks on Industrial Organization, jointly written with Dennis Carlton, and Microeconomics.

Selected publications

Carlton, D. W., & Perloff, J. M. (1990). Modern industrial organization (p. 405). Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education.

Perloff, J. M., & Salop, S. C. (1985). Equilibrium with product differentiation. The Review of Economic Studies, 52(1), 107–120.

Perloff, Jeffrey M. (2004).

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1985, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Jeffrey, Perloff and American can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19662611. VIAF identifies the subject as 5023372. The Library of Congress control number is n79016719. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1985 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeffrey M. Perloff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.