Isaiah Leo Sharfman (February 19, 1886, Polonne, Russian Empire[a] – September 9, 1969, Washington, D.C.) was an American economist.
[3] He returned to the United States after two years and briefly worked as the Chief Investigator for the Department on Regulation of Interstate and Municipal Utilities for the National Civic Federation of New York.
He joined the faulty of the University of Michigan as a lecturer in political economy and instructor in contracts the same year, standing in for Jerome C. Knowlton.
He was awarded The James Barr Ames Prize for his multi-volume work The Interstate Commerce Commission.
[9] Sharfman died in Washington, D.C.[4] His nephew is the American journalist Mike Wallace.