Lester Greenspan Telser (January 3, 1931 - September 3, 2022) was an American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, with Milton Friedman as his principal thesis supervisor.
His works include research on the theory of the core, Federal Reserve policy, and integer programming.
[1][3] Unusually for the Chicago school of economics, he also wrote about game theory as early as 1972.
"[5] The University of California-Berkeley also created an oral history of modern economics and included an interview with Lester Telser.