Eminent economists II : their life and work philosophies /
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
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| Description: | xx, 470 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9952397 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Being there: an intellectual journey
- 2. Social norms in economics and in the economics profession
- 3. Personal reflections on my professional life
- 4. Gray eminence?
- 5. Biochemist to economist
- 6. Puzzles and paradoxes: a life in applied economics
- 7. Succeeding in economics
- 8. My research strategy
- 9. My philosophy of economics, life, and everything (not!)
- 10. Finding a niche
- 11. Become an economist - see the world
- 12. Practitioner of the dismal science? Who, me? Couldn't be!!
- 13. One job, four careers
- 14. My life and research strategy
- 15. How I ended up being a multifaceted economist and the mentors I have had
- 16. Searching for my personal philosophy
- 17. Learning about the evolving international economy
- 18. Confessions of a Wellesley FEM
- 19. God, ants, and Thomas Bayes
- 20. The path of a monetary economist
- 21. Learning from the field
- 22. Order in and through disorder: the invisible hand as a turbulent regulator?
- 23. The education of an economist
- 24. Faith, science, and religion
- 25. My studies in international economics
- 26. Sailing into the wind
- 27. My life and work philosophy
- 28. Scaling fortress economics
- 29. The accidental economist
