The Nobel Laureates: How the World's Greatest Economic Minds Shaped Modern Thought

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. 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. Economic Growth And Development / Robert Solow, Theodore Schultz, Arthur Lewis, Robert Fogel, Gunnar Myrdal -- Financing Growth-promoting Investments / Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, James Tobin, Franco Modigliani, Paul Samuelson, Merton Miller, Robert Merton, Myron Scholes, Bertil Ohlin, James Meade, Robert Mundell, William Vickrey, James Mirrlees -- Society's Institutions: Their Origins And Potential For Change / John Nash, John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten, Douglass North, Robert Fogel. By Marilu Hurt Mccarty. Includes Bibliographical References.