Introduction
Richard Emeric Quandt (born 1 June 1930 in Budapest) is a Guggenheim Fellowship winning economist who analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Orley Ashenfelter.
Quandt serves as a professor of economics at Princeton University. In 1979 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is current senior adviser to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Quandt is a member of the American Association of Wine Economists and editor of their journal, the Journal of Wine Economics.In 2012, he was involved in organizing a blind tasting event comparing wines produced in France with several wines produced in New Jersey held at Princeton University and known as the "Judgment of Princeton."
He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard University.
Published works
- The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe: A Personal Perspective on Philanthropy and Technology Transfer Oxford University Press 2002 ISBN 0-19-514669-7
- (with Andrew Lass). Library automation in transitional societies: lessons from Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-513262-9.
- The Collected Essays of Richard E. Quandt (Economists of the Twentieth Century) Edward Elgar Publishing 1992 ISBN 1-85278-605-1
- Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies Praeger Paperback 1991 ISBN 0-275-94103-5
- (with James M. Henderson). Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach Mcgraw-Hill College 1980 ISBN 0-07-028101-7