Armen Albert Alchian (born April 12, 1914, Fresno, California) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Alchian was born into an Armenian-American family. He attended California State University, Fresno for two years before transferring to Stanford University in 1934, which awarded him the B.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1944). He was a statistician with the USA Army Air Corps, 1942-46. In 1946, he joined the Economics Department at UCLA, … Wikipedia
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His name may not be as well known as John Wooden, but Armen Alchian is arguably just as much a part of UCLA history as the longtime mens basketball coach. www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=37051