Shlomo Weber is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and the President, New Economic School, Moscow. Professor Weber served as the Chairman of the Department of Economics at SMU, the Research Director of Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and the Academic Director of the International School of Economics, Tbilisi, Georgia. He received various international prizes, including Alexander von