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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456110503321

Titolo

Lives of the laureates [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-three Nobel economists / / edited by William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

0-262-30337-X

1-282-24023-4

9786612240232

0-262-01276-6

0-262-25499-9

Edizione

[5th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BreitWilliam

HirschBarry T. <1949->

Disciplina

330.092/2

Soggetti

Economists

Nobel Prizes

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-459).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction to the Fifth Edition; Acknowledgments; 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.; James J. Heckman; Vernon L. Smith; Clive W. J. Granger; Edward C. Prescott; Thomas C. Schelling; Edmund S. Phelps; Lessons from the Laureates: An Afterword; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Autobiographical accounts by twenty-three Nobel laureates give a picture of the richness of contemporary economic thought and insights into the creative process.