The Nobel Memorial laureates in economics an introduction to their careers and main published works

Erudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The vignettes sh...

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Main Author: Vane, Howard R.
Other Authors: Mulhearn, Chris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar 2005
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Summary:Erudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The vignettes should also encourage the reader to sample some of the Laureates" original works and gain a better understanding of the context in which new ideas were first put forward
1969: Ragnar Frisch -- 1969: Jan Tinbergen -- 1970: Paul Samuelson -- 1971: Simon Kuznets -- 1972: John Hicks -- 1972: Kenneth Arrow -- 1973: Wassily Leontief -- 1974: Gunnar Myrdal -- 1974: Friedrich von Hayek -- 1975: Leonid Kantorovich -- 1975: Tjalling Koopmans -- 1976: Milton Friedman -- 1977: Bertil Ohlin -- 1977: James Meade -- 1978: Herbert Simon -- 1979: Theodore Schultz -- 1979: Arthur Lewis -- 1980: Lawrence Klein -- 1981: James Tobin -- 1982: George Stigler -- 1983: Gerard Debreu -- 1984: Richard Stone -- 1985: Franco Modigliani -- 1986: James Buchanan -- 1987: Robert Solow -- 1988: Maurice Allais -- 1989: Trygve Haavelmo -- 1990: Harry Markowitz -- 1990: Merton Miller -- 1990: William Sharpe -- 1991: Ronald Coase -- 1992: Gary Becker -- 1993: Robert Fogel -- 1993: Douglass North -- 1994: John Harsanyi -- 1994: John Nash Jr. -- 1994: Reinhard Selten -- 1995: Robert Lucas Jr. -- 1996: James Mirrlees -- 1996: William Vickrey -- 1997: Robert Merton -- 1997: Myron Scholes -- 1998: Amartya Sen -- 1999: Robert Mundell -- 2000: James Heckman -- 2000: Daniel McFadden -- 2001: George Akerlof -- 2001: Michael Spence -- 2001: Joseph Stiglitz -- 2002: Daniel Kahneman -- 2002: Vernon Smith -- 2003: Robert Engle -- 2003: Clive Granger -- 2004: Finn Kydland -- 2004: Edward Prescott
Physical Description:xii, 362 p ports
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