false 6003814 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light on the processes of intellectual discovery and creativity. This fifth edition adds five recent Nobel laureates to its list of contributors: Vernon L. Smith (2002), Clive W. J. Granger (2003), Edward C. Prescott (2004), Thomas C. Schelling (2005) and Edmund S. Phelps (2006). Also included is the editors' revised afterword, "Lessons from the Laureates."

Lives of the Laureates grows out of a continuing lecture series at Trinity University in San Antonio, which invites Nobelists from American universities to describe their evolution as economists in personal as well as technical terms. Each laureate achieves the goal of clarity without sacrificing inherently difficult content: Kenneth Arrow makes grasping the essentials of his "impossibility theorem" painless; Lawrence Klein clearly presents what goes into econometric "model building"; George Stigler masterfully describes his "information theory"; and so on.

These lectures demonstrate the richness and diversity of contemporary economic thought. The reader will find that paths cross in unexpected ways—that disparate thinkers were often influenced by the same teachers—and that luck as well as hard work plays a role in the process of scientific discovery.

Contributors: Kenneth J. Arrow, Gary S. Becker, James M. Buchanan, Ronald H. Coase, Milton Friedman, Clive W. J. Granger, John C. Harsanyi, James J. Heckman, Lawrence R. Klein, W. Arthur Lewis, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Franco Modigliani, Douglass C. North, Edmund S. Phelps, Edward C. Prescott, Paul A. Samuelson, Thomas C. Schelling, Myron S. Scholes, William F. Sharpe, Vernon L. Smith, Robert M. Solow, George J. Stigler, James Tobin]]> 6003814 1 6178745 31 3 2009 Lives of the Laureates, Fifth Edition: Twenty-three Nobel Economists 0 0 1 0 262332 5.00 1 0 1054030 0.0 0 0 66267808 2354530 6003814 0262012766 9780262012768 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6003814.Lives_of_the_Laureates_Fifth_Edition_Twenty_three_Nobel_Economists 0.0 0 Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light on the processes of intellectual discovery and creativity. This fifth edition adds five recent Nobel laureates to its list of contributors: Vernon L. Smith (2002), Clive W. J. Granger (2003), Edward C. Prescott (2004), Thomas C. Schelling (2005) and Edmund S. Phelps (2006). Also included is the editors' revised afterword, "Lessons from the Laureates."

Lives of the Laureates grows out of a continuing lecture series at Trinity University in San Antonio, which invites Nobelists from American universities to describe their evolution as economists in personal as well as technical terms. Each laureate achieves the goal of clarity without sacrificing inherently difficult content: Kenneth Arrow makes grasping the essentials of his "impossibility theorem" painless; Lawrence Klein clearly presents what goes into econometric "model building"; George Stigler masterfully describes his "information theory"; and so on.

These lectures demonstrate the richness and diversity of contemporary economic thought. The reader will find that paths cross in unexpected ways—that disparate thinkers were often influenced by the same teachers—and that luck as well as hard work plays a role in the process of scientific discovery.

Contributors: Kenneth J. Arrow, Gary S. Becker, James M. Buchanan, Ronald H. Coase, Milton Friedman, Clive W. J. Granger, John C. Harsanyi, James J. Heckman, Lawrence R. Klein, W. Arthur Lewis, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Franco Modigliani, Douglass C. North, Edmund S. Phelps, Edward C. Prescott, Paul A. Samuelson, Thomas C. Schelling, Myron S. Scholes, William F. Sharpe, Vernon L. Smith, Robert M. Solow, George J. Stigler, James Tobin]]> 2009 0 0 false Wed Aug 05 04:10:03 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 17:52:09 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6003814