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Subject(s)

• Economics—History [Browse]
• Economics [Browse]
• Economists [Browse]

Related name

• Pressman, Steven [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 94. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 94 [More in this series]

Summary note

This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective, these chapters explain how their work constitutes a major contribution to the discipline of economics and how it has broadened economic science. Co-Editor of the Review of Political Economy, Steven Pressman has gathered together for the first time key chapters from the journal, discussing major figures such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, John Kenneth Galbraith, Thomas Schelling, Edmund

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; 1 Leading contemporary economists: An introduction to their cutting-edge work; 2 The economic contributions of David M. Gordon; 3 The economic contributions of Hyman Minsky: Varieties of capitalism and institutional reform; 4 The economic contributions of Amartya Sen; 5 The economic contributions of Robert A. Mundell; 6 The 'rocket science' of economics: The 2000 Nobel Prize winners - James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden
• 7 A Nobel Prize for asymmetric information: The economic contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz8 The Nobel Prize in behavioral and experimental economics: A contextual and critical appraisal of the contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith; 9 The economic contributions of Paul Sweezy; 10 Paradise lost and found?: The econometric contributions of Clive W. J. Granger and Robert F. Engle; 11 The economic contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith; 12 Kydland and Prescott's Nobel Prize: The methodology of time consistency and real business cycle models
• 13 Aumann and Schelling: Two approaches to game theory14 On the contributions of Barbara Bergmann to economics; 15 Edmund Phelps and modern macroeconomics; Index

ISBN

• 1-135-97434-9
• 0-429-23975-0
• 1-135-97435-7
• 1-281-79673-5
• 9786611796730
• 0-203-89309-3

OCLC

437222522

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