The Story of an Economist's Growth

Author: Wang Zekuo
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The Story of Economists introduces the growth and thoughts of 10 world-famous economists. Now, we will introduce 11 more. To avoid repetition in the book title, we call it The Story of Economists' Studies. In fact, the proportion of academic content in the economists introduced this time is indeed higher. They are economists such as Acemoglu, Becker, Greenspan, Lafora, Lindbeck, Manqun, Nash, Schubik, Dixit, Tirole, and mathematician Smale. There are countless works on economics, and books about economists are also numerous in hundreds of times. Many works are indeed profound, but they are inevitably awe-inspiring. This book aims to introduce a group of distinctive economists in a storytelling manner and with a fluent and accessible style to students and teachers of economics and management, as well as a broad readership interested in economics and economists. Most of them are renowned economists who have not won the Nobel Prize in Economics. This is because the introduction of Nobel laureates has already been very popular, and we do not want to join the crowd. In the impression of many readers, economists seem to be whimsical geniuses. We strive to "bring them back" to their true selves and focus on uncovering the journey of these economists' studies and their entry into the of economics. We do not overlook those seemingly accidental opportunities, which is our pursuit. Perhaps one day, you will also take such a path. Among the 10 economists, 2 have won the Nobel Prize. They are the two wings of mainstream American economics—Samuelson and Friedman, Varian and Stiglitz, who are not only famous for their textbooks. Liu Zuyi and Krugman once predicted the East Asian financial crisis; the proud radio frequency auction of Bimendel; Robinson's struggle against mainstream economics; the dedicated scholar nature of Schaff and Zou Zhiyong in teaching—all of these form chapters of this book.