Reflections of Eminent Economists

Edited by Michael Szenberg () and Lall Ramrattan

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this collection of autobiographical essays, 26 prominent scholars detail their professional development, while offering insight into their lives and philosophies. With candor and humor they relate how they came to the field of economics, as well as how their views have evolved over the years.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781843766285
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 My Life Philosophy

Irma Adelman

Ch 2 My Life Philosophy

Bela Balassa

Ch 3 Thinking about Economics

Caroline Shaw Bell

Ch 4 Pushing for a More Humane Society

Barbara Bergmann

Ch 5 Not only an Economist – Autobiographical Reflections of a Historian of Economic Thought

Mark Blaug

Ch 6 Instead of a Philosophy of Life

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Ch 7 Sex and the Ivy League

Graciela Chichilnisky

Ch 8 The Story of a Reluctant Economist

Richard Easterlin

Ch 9 My Life and Economics

Ronald Ehrenberg

Ch 10 Education and its Consequences: My Philosophy of Life

Victor Fuchs

Ch 11 A Roundabout Approach to Macroeconomics: Some Autobiographical Reflections

Roger W. Garrison

Ch 12 My Life Philosophy

Eli Ginzberg

Ch 13 Reflections of a Policy Economist

Edward Gramlich

Ch 14 My Life Philosophy

Everett E. Hagen

Ch 15 Political Economy, Politics and Religion: Intertwined and Indissoluble Passions

Geoffrey Harcourt

Ch 16 Some Ethical and Methodological Convictions

Edmond Malinvaud

Ch 17 Trains of Thought

Harry Markowitz

Ch 18 My Life Philosophy

Allan Meltzer

Ch 19 Following the Indicators

Geoffrey H. Moore

Ch 20 A View from the Midway

Walter Oi

Ch 21 What Makes My Mind Tick

Mark Perlman

Ch 22 To Push and to be Pushed

Kurt W. Rothschild

Ch 23 An Accidental Schumpeterian

F. M. Scherer

Ch 24 Philosophy and My Work Life

Julian L. Simon

Ch 25 Life and Philosophy

Hirofumi Uzawa

Ch 26 A Life Philosophy

Alan Walters

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