Title: The Nobel laureates : how the world's greatest economic minds shaped modern thought /
Authors: McCarty, Marilu Hurt.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Economics History; Economists.; Nobel Prizes History; Nobel Prize winners.
Abstract: "Through the lives and works of Nobel Prize-wining economists, this book traces the development of today's economic landscape - and provides a coherent, nontechnical description of modern economic thought."--Jacket.
Contents: The rationalists and individual choice / George Stigler, Friedrich von Hayek, Gary Becker, Herbert Simon -- Limits to rationality and the role of government / Kenneth Arrow, John Hicks, James Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Amartya Sen -- Measuring to understand / Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Tjalling Koopmans, Leonid Kantorovich, Trygve Haavelmo -- When cycles become depressions / Paul Samuelson, Milton Friedman, James Tobin, John Hicks, Robert Lucas, Franco Modigliani -- The model builders / Richard Stone, Gerard Debreu, Kenneth Arrow, Maurice Allais, Wassily Leontief, Lawrence Klein, Simon Kuznets.