Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler and Ronald H. Coase

Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler and Ronald H. Coase

Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler and Ronald H. Coase

Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler and Ronald H. Coase

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Overview

This groundbreaking title brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and focuses on those Laureates working in the same broad area of study. The careful selection of papers is set in context by an insightful introduction to the Laureates' careers and main published works. This landmark title will be an essential reference for scholars throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849803991
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Series: Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics series , #11
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Edited by Howard R. Vane, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Chris Mulhearn, formerly Reader in Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:

Acknowledgements

General Introduction Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

PART I HERBERT A. SIMON
Introduction to Part I: Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
1. Herbert A. Simon (1955), ‘A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice’
2. Herbert A. Simon (1959), ‘Theories of Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioral Science’
3. Herbert A. Simon (1962), ‘The Architecture of Complexity’
4. Herbert A. Simon (1972), ‘Theories of Bounded Rationality’
5. Herbert A. Simon (1978), ‘Rationality as a Process and as Product of Thought’
6. Herbert A. Simon (1979), ‘Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations’

PART II GEORGE J. STIGLER
Introduction to Part II : George J. Stigler (1911-91)
7. George J. Stigler (1945), ‘The Cost of Subsistence’
8. George J. Stigler (1947), ‘The Kinky Oligopoly Demand Curve and Rigid Prices’
9. George J. Stigler (1961), ‘The Economics of Information’
10. George J. Stigler (1962), ‘Information in the Labor Market’
11. George J. Stigler (1964), ‘A Theory of Oligopoly’
12. George J. Stigler (1971), ‘The Theory of Economic Regulation’

PART III RONALD H. COASE
Introduction to Part III: Ronald H. Coase (b. 1910)
13. R.H. Coase (1937), ‘The Nature of the Firm’
14. R.H. Coase (1960), ‘The Problem of Social Cost’,
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