Ross Marc Starr (born 1945) is an Americaneconomist who specializes inmicroeconomic theory,monetary economics andmathematical economics. He is aprofessor at theUniversity of California, San Diego.^[1]

Starr grew up inLos Angeles where he attended high school. He attendedUCLA andReed College before obtaining hisBachelor of Science degree in mathematics fromStanford in 1966. He completed hisPhD in economics at Stanford in 1972. His dissertation was supervised byKenneth Arrow.

He has worked at theRAND corporation,Yale,UC Davis,UC Berkeley, theFederal Reserve Bank inSan Francisco and at UC San Diego.

Starr first published theShapley–Folkman lemma on the existence of quasi-equilibria in economies with non-convexities.

In addition to publications in economic journals, he wrote the textbookGeneral Equilibrium Theory: An Introduction.

• Starr, Ross M. (1969), "Quasi-equilibria in markets with non-convex preferences (Appendix 2: The Shapley–Folkman theorem, pp. 35–37)",Econometrica,37 (1):25–38,CiteSeerX 10.1.1.297.8498,doi:10.2307/1909201,JSTOR 1909201
• Starr, Ross M. (2008)."Shapley–Folkman theorem". In Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E (eds.).The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 317–318 (1st ed.).doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1518.ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5.
• Starr, Ross M., ed. (1989).General equilibrium models of monetary economies: Studies in the static foundations of monetary theory. Economic theory, econometrics, and mathematical economics. Academic Press. p. 351.ISBN 978-0-12-663970-4.
• Ross M. Starr (April 25, 2011).General Equilibrium Theory: An Introduction (2th ed.). Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-139-49673-5.

• "Ross Starr".JSTOR.

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