Fifty Major EconomistsRoutledge, 22.8.2013 - 352 sivua An introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the sovereign debt problems which face the world today, it includes entries on: • Paul Krugman • Hyman Minsky • John Maynard Keynes • Adam Smith • Irving Fisher • James Buchanan
Fifty Major Economists contains brief biographical information on each featured economist and an explanation of their major contributions to economics, along with simple illustrations of their ideas. With reference to the recent work of living economists, guides to the best of recent scholarship and a glossary of terms, Fifty Major Economists is an ideal resource for students of economics. Steven Pressman is Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University. He has published around 120 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored, or edited 13 books, including Women in the Age of Economic Transformation, Economics and Its Discontents, Alternative Theories of the State, and Leading Contemporary Economists. |
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Thomas Mun 15711641 | 3 |
William Petty 162387 | 7 |
Richard Cantillon 1687?1734? | 12 |
François Quesnay 16941774 | 16 |
David Hume 171176 | 22 |
Adam Smith 172390 | 26 |
Jeremy Bentham 17481832 | 35 |
Thomas Robert Malthus 17661834 | 39 |
Piero Sraffa 18981983 | 153 |
Gunnar Myrdal 18981987 | 159 |
Friedrich Hayek 18991992 | 164 |
Simon Kuznets 190185 | 171 |
John von Neumann 190357 | 177 |
Joan Robinson 190383 | 184 |
Jan Tinbergen 190394 | 190 |
John Hicks 190489 | 197 |
David Ricardo 17721823 | 44 |
Antoine Augustin Cournot 180177 | 52 |
John Stuart Mill 180673 | 57 |
Karl Marx 181883 | 62 |
Léon Walras 18341910 | 70 |
William Stanley Jevons 183582 | 75 |
Carl Menger 18401921 | 80 |
Alfred Marshall 18421924 | 86 |
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 18451926 | 94 |
John Bates Clark 18471938 | 100 |
Vilfredo Pareto 18481923 | 106 |
Eugen von BöhmBawerk 18511914 | 112 |
Knut Wicksell 18511926 | 117 |
Thorstein Veblen 18571929 | 123 |
Irving Fisher 18671947 | 128 |
Arthur Cecil Pigou 18771959 | 134 |
John Maynard Keynes 18831946 | 140 |
Joseph Schumpeter 18831950 | 148 |
Wassily Leontief 190699 | 206 |
John Kenneth Galbraith 19082006 | 211 |
Milton Friedman 19122006 | 217 |
Paul Samuelson 19152009 | 225 |
Franco Modigliani 19182003 | 232 |
James M Buchanan 19192013 | 237 |
Hyman Minsky 191996 | 243 |
Douglass Cecil North 1920 | 250 |
Kenneth J Arrow 1921 | 256 |
Barbara R Bergmann 1927 | 262 |
Gary Becker 1930 | 268 |
Amartya Sen 1933 | 273 |
Daniel Kahneman 1934 | 280 |
Robert E Lucas Jr 1937 | 287 |
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Paul Krugman 1953 | 300 |
Glossary | 312 |