Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-Three Nobel Economists
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...
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Autobiographical accounts by twenty-three Nobel laureates give a picture of the richness of contemporary economic thought and insights into the creative process.
Introduction to the fifth editionW. Arthur Lewis 1Lawrence R. Klein 17Kenneth J. Arrow 35Paul A. Samuelson 49Milton Friedman 65George J. Stigler 79James Tobin 95Franco Modigliani 115James M. Buchanan 137William F. Sharpe 171Ronald H. Coase 189Douglass C. North 209John C. Harsanyi 223Myron S. Scholes 235Gary S. Becker 251Robert E. Lucas, Jr. 273James J. Heckman 299Vernon L. Smith 335Clive W. J. Granger 357Edward C. Prescott 369Thomas C. Schelling 393Edmund S. Phelps 421Lessons from the Laureates: An Afterword 437Notes 455
