NOBEL LECTURES IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES 1981 - 1990
The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
edited by Karl-Gφran Mδler (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden)
Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1981 1990 with a description of the works which won them their prizes:
(1981) J TOBIN for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices; (1982) G J STIGLER for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation; (1983) G DEBREU for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium; (1984) R STONE for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis; (1985) F MODIGLIANI for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets; (1986) J BUCHANAN, JR for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making; (1987) R M SOLOW for his contributions to the theory of economic growth; (1988) M ALLAIS for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources; (1989) T HAAVELMO for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrices and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures; (1990) H M MARKOWITZ, M H MILLER & W F SHARPE for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics.
Readership: Economists and social scientists.
"As the editor observes, the economists whose work is depicted here in the presentation speeches, the laureates' usually brief autobiographical accounts, and the lectures, have made various contributions to the discipline."
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Pub. date: Sept 1992 |