Lives of the laureates : thirty-two Nobel economists / edited by Roger W. Spencer and David A. Macpherson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spencer, Roger W., editor.

Macpherson, David A., 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economists--Biography.

Economists.

Nobel Prize winners--Biography.

Nobel Prize winners.

Nobel Prizes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Lives of the Laureates compiles autobiographical essays by recipients of the Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences who have presented lectures at Trinity University, describing the path that led them to the work honored with a Nobel. The seventh edition includes new essays from laureates Alvin Roth, Amartya Sen, Chris Sims, Michael Spence, Thomas Sargent, and Roger Myerson. James Heckman's chapter has been removed (he did not want it shortened). Profiles that appeared in earlier editions have been edited for length. The full versions will be hosted online. Essays by W. Arthur Lewis, Ronald W. Coase, John C. Harsanyi, and Clive W.J. Granger, which were removed from the sixth edition, have been edited for length and included in the seventh edition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

W. Arthur Lewis

Lawrence R. Klein

Kenneth J. Arrow

Paul A. Samuelson

Milton Friedman

George J. Stigler

James Tobin

Franco Modigliani

James M. Buchanan

Robert M. Solow

William F. Sharpe

Ronald H. Coase

Douglass C. North

John C. Harsanyi

Myron S. Scholes

Gary S. Becker

Robert E. Lucas, Jr.

Vernon L. Smith

Clive W.J. Granger

Edward C. Prescott

Thomas C. Schelling

Edmund S. Phelps

Eric S. Maskin

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Paul Krugman

Peter A. Diamond

Roger B. Myerson

Thomas J. Sargent

Amartya Sen

A. Michael Spence

Christopher A. Sims

Alvin E. Roth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-35800-X

0-262-35799-2

OCLC:

1129596949