Leading Contemporary Economists: Economics at the cutting edge

by Pressman; Steven

• ISBN13: 9780415775014
• ISBN10: 0415775019
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of essays offers an extensivecritical review of the major contributions ofkey figures in contemporary heterodox economics, including comprehensive bibliographies of their writings and lists of vital secondary material.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. xv
Leading contemporary economists: an introduction to their cutting-edge work	p. 1
The economic contributions of David M. Gordon	p. 15
The economic contributions of Hyman Minsky: varieties of capitalism and institutional reform	p. 38
The economic contributions of Amartya Sen	p. 66
The economic contributions of Robert A. Mundell	p. 99
The 'rocket science' of economics: the 2000 Nobel Prize winners - James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden	p. 118
A Nobel Prize for asymmetric information: the economic contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz	p. 144
The Nobel Prize in behavioral and experimental economics: a contextual and critical appraisal of the contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith	p. 164
The economic contributions of Paul Sweezy	p. 206
Paradise lost and found? The econometric contributions of Clive W. J. Granger and Robert F. Engle	p. 251
The economic contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith	p. 281
Kydland and Prescott's Nobel Prize: the methodology of time consistency and real business cycle models	p. 335
Aumann and Schelling: two approaches to game theory	p. 366
On the contributions of Barbara Bergmann to economics	p. 388
Edmund Phelps and modern macroeconomics	p. 412
Index	p. 430
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