LEADER 01220nam 2200325Ia 4500001 99125307746606421 005 20200520144314.0 006 m o d | 007 cr -n--------- 008 080131s2008 enkd ob 001 0 eng d 020 1-135-97434-9 020 0-429-23975-0 020 1-135-97435-7 020 1-281-79673-5 020 9786611796730 020 0-203-89309-3 035 (CKB)1000000000542054 035 (EBL)359046 035 (OCoLC)437222522 035 (SSID)ssj0000190242 035 (PQKBManifestationID)11190004 035 (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000190242 035 (PQKBWorkID)10166631 035 (PQKB)10274259 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC359046 035 (EXLCZ)991000000000542054 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 041 eng 050 4 HB75 |b.L347 2008 082 0 330.092/2 |222 245 00 Leading contemporary economists : |beconomics at the cutting edge / |cedited by Steven Pressman. 260 London ;New York, NY : |bRoutledge, |c2008. 300 1 online resource (464 p.) 336 text |btxt 337 computer |bc 338 online resource |bcr 490 1 Routledge studies in the history of economics ; |v94 500 Description based upon print version of record. 505 0 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 505 8 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 505 8 13 Aumann and Schelling: Two approaches to game theory14 On the contributions of Barbara Bergmann to economics; 15 Edmund Phelps and modern macroeconomics; Index 520 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 546 English 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 Economics |xHistory. 650 0 Economics. 650 0 Economists. 776 |z0-415-77501-9 700 1 Pressman, Steven. 830 0 Routledge studies in the history of economics ; |v94. 906 BOOK