Werner Z. Hirsch

Hirsch was born on June 20, 1920, in Linz am Rhein, Germany.[1][2] Due to the rise of antisemitic National Socialism in Germany, Hirsch and his family moved to Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now known as Israel) in 1936.[3] He took the middle name 'Zvi' in Israel.[3]

Hirsch attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3] He emigrated to the United States in 1946 and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1947.[1] He earned a PhD in economics from Berkeley in 1949.[1]

Hirsch worked at Berkeley from 1949 to 1951.[1] He was an economist at the Brookings Institution in 1952.[1] He taught economics at the Washington University in St. Louis from 1953 to 1962.[1]

Hirsch became a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1963.[1] He served as the first director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at UCLA.[1] He retired from UCLA in 1990.[3] Meanwhile, he worked for the RAND Corporation,[1] the Kerner Commission, the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Science Foundation.[2] Meanwhile, with Luc E. Weber, Hirsch was the co-founder of the Glion Colloquium, a think tank on higher education which published many books about higher education policy.[4]

Hirsch endowed the Werner Z. Hirsch Award in Representational Drawing in the Department of Art at UCLA.[5]

Hirsch married Hilde Emma Zwiren, known as Esther, whom he met in Israel.[3] They resided in Los Angeles, California, where he died of pancreatic cancer on July 10, 2009.[1]

• Hirsch, Werner Z.; Marcus, Morton J.; Segelhorst, Elbert W. (1964). Spillover of Public Education: Costs and Benefits. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. OCLC 1050397.
• Baisden, Richard N.; Hirsch, Werner Z. (1965). California's Future Economic Growth: Economic Prospects of the Nation's Largest State, Proposals for Offsetting the Effects of Declining Defense Expenditures. Berkeley, California: Diablo Press. OCLC 976849.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1967). Elements of Regional Accounts. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. OCLC 175527.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1967). Inventing Education for the Future. San Francisco, California: Chandler Publishing Company. OCLC 177973.
• Hale, Samuel; Hirsch, Werner Z. (1969). Agenda for the Los Angeles Area in 1970. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. OCLC 558637.
• Hirsch, Werner Z.; Sonenblum, Sidney (1970). Selecting Regional Information for Government Planning and Decision-Making. New York: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 9780275027131. OCLC 66565.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1970). The Economics of State and Local Government. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 9780070290426. OCLC 80049.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1971). Fiscal Pressures on the Central City: The Impact of Commuters, Nonwhites, and Overlapping Governments. New York: Praeger Publishers. OCLC 212612.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1971). Los Angeles: Viability and Prospects for Metropolitan Leadership. New York: Praeger Publishers. OCLC 235888.
• Gay, Robert M.; Hirsch, Werner Z.; Marcus, Morton J. (1972). Program Budgeting for Primary and Secondary Public Education: Current Status and Prospects in Los Angeles. New York: Praeger Publishers. OCLC 579272.
• Hirsch, Werner Z.; Sonenblum, Sidney (1973). Governing Urban America in the 1970s. New York: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 9780275286743. OCLC 584108.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1973). Urban Economic Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 9780070290440. OCLC 577969.
• Hirsch, Werner Z.; Sonenblum, Sidney; Teeples, Ronald K. (1974). Local Government Program Budgeting: Theory and Practice, with Special Reference to Los Angeles. New York: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 9780275288594. OCLC 1269553.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1977). Recent Experiences with National Planning in the United Kingdom: A Study. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 6058328.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1979). Law and Economics: An Introductory Analysis. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 9780123494801. OCLC 5289386.
• Hirsch, Werner Z.; Rufolo, Anthony M. (1990). Public finance and expenditure in a federal system. San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 9780155734821. OCLC 21406046.
• Hirsch, Werner Z. (1991). Privatizing Government Services: An Economic Analysis of Contracting Out By Local Governments. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780892151691. OCLC 24928133.
• Weber, Luc E.; Hirsch, Werner Z. (1999). Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press. ISBN 9781573562935. OCLC 41108558.
• Weber, Luc E.; Hirsch, Werner Z. (2001). Governance in Higher Education: The University in a State of Flux. London, U.K.: Economica. ISBN 9782717841909. OCLC 49707687.
• Hirsch, Werner Z.; Weber, Luc E. (2002). As the Walls of Academia Are Tumbling Down. London, U.K.: Economica. ISBN 9782717844399. OCLC 51821859.