Screen LibraryLeading contemporary economists：economics at the cutting edge
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 94 |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 445 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415775014 0415775019 9780203893098 (ebk.) 0203893093 (ebk.) |
| Index Number: | F0 |
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F0 F09 |
| Call Number: | F0/L434 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Leading contemporary economists: an introduction to their cutting-edge work / Steven Pressman -- The economic contributions of David M. Gordon / Heather Boushey and Steven Pressman -- The economic contributions of Hyman Minksy: varieties of capitalism and institutional reform / Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray -- The economic contributions of Amartya Sen / Steven Pressman and Gale Summerfield -- The economic contributions of Robert A. Mundell / Robert E. Prasch -- The "rocket science" of economics: the 2000 Nobel Prize winners-- James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden / Carolyn J. Heinrich and Jeffrey B. Wenger -- A Nobel Prize for asymmetric information: the economic contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz / J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.-- The Nobel Prize in behavioral and experimental economics: a contextual and critical appraisal of the contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith / Morris Altman -- The economic contributions of Paul Sweezy / M.C. Howard and J.E. King -- Paradise lost and found? The econometric contributions of Clive W.J. Granger and Robert F. Engle / Peter Hans Matthews -- The economic contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith / Stephen P. Dunn and Steven Pressman -- Kydland and Prescott's Nobel Prize: the methodology of time consistency and real business cycle models / James E. Hartley -- Aumann and Schelling: two approaches to game theory -- On the contributions of Barbara Bergmann to economics / Paulette I. Olson -- Edmund Phelps and modern macroeconomics / Robert W. Dimand. Like any discipline, economics is dynamic and constantly changing. These chapters should provide the reader with a greater appreciation of the contributions made by its major contemporary figures. |