Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS , 1. Leading Contemporary Economists: An Introduction to their Cutting-Edge Work, Steven Pressman , 2. The Economic Contributions of David M. Gordon, Heather Boushey and Steven Pressman , 3. The Economic Contributions of Hyman Minsky: Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Reform, Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray , 4. The Economic Contributions of Amartya Sen, Steven Pressman and Gale Summerfield , 5. The Economic Contributions of Robert A. Mundell, Robert E. Prasch , 6. The ‘Rocket Science’ of Economics: The 2000 Nobel Prize Winners-- James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden, Carolyn J. Heinrich and Jeffrey B. Wenger , 7. A Nobel Prize for Asymmetric Information: The Economic Contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., 8. The Nobel Prize in Behavioral and Experimental Economics: A Contextual and Critical Appraisal of the Contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith, Morris Altman , 9. The Economic Contributions of Paul Sweezy, M. C. Howard and J. E. King , 10. Paradise Lost and Found? The Econometric Contributions of Clive W. J. Granger and Robert F. Engle, Peter Hans Matthews , 11. The Economic Contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith, Stephen P. Dunn and Steven Pressman , 12. Kydland and Prescott's Nobel Prize: The Methodology of Time Consistency and Real Business Cycle Models, James E. Hartley , 13. Aumann and Schelling: Two Approaches to Game Theory, Abu Rizvi , 14. On the Contributions of Barbara Bergmann to Economics, Paulette Olson , 15. Edmund Phelps and Modern Macroeconomics, Robert Dimand

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'This is a book that proves that economics is not a dismal science' Michael Szenberg (Pace University, USA)