Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 459 p)
ISBN:
9781845423636
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Content:
In this collection of autobiographical essays, 26 prominent scholars detail their profes sional 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
Content:
1. My life philosophy / Irma Adelman -- 2. My life philosophy / Bela Balassa -- 3. Thinking about economics / Carolyn Shaw Bell -- 4. Pushing for a more humane society / Barbara R. Bergmann -- 5. Not only an economist, autobiographical reflections of a historian of economic thought / Mark Blaug -- 6. Instead of a philosophy of life / Martin Bronfenbrenner -- 7. Sex and the Ivy League / Graciela Chichilnisky -- 8. The story of a reluctant economist / Richard A. Easterlin -- 9. My life and economics / Ronald G. Ehrenberg -- 10. Education and its consequences : my philosophy of life / Victor R. Fuchs --11. A roundabout approach to macroeconomics : some autobiographical reflections / Roger W. Garrison --12. My life philosophy / Eli Ginzberg --13. Reflections of a policy economist / Edward M. Gramlich --14. My life philosophy / Everett E. Hagen --15. Political economy, politics and religion : intertwined and indissoluble passions / G.C. Harcourt --16. Some ethical and methodological convictions / E. Malinvaud -- 17. Trains of thought / Harry M. Markowitz -- 18. My life philosophy / Allan H. Meltzer --19. Following the indicators / Geoffrey H. Moore -- 20. A view from the midway / Walter Y. Oi -- 21. What makes my mind tick / Mark Perlman -- 22. To push and to be pushed / Kurt W. Rothschild -- 23. An accidental Schumpeterian / F.M. Scherer -- 24. Philosophy and my work life / Julian L. Simon -- 25. Life and philosophy / Hirofumi Uzawa -- 26. A life philosophy / Sir Alan Walters
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845425777 (pbk.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1843766280
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843766285 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 9781843766285 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Reflections of eminent economists Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2004 ISBN 1843766280
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.4337/9781845423636
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