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The welfarist academician

27 Nov 2021 11:46 PM IST
Angus Deaton is known for extensively analysing data around individual consumer choices, and linking it with aggregate consumption, to shape policies...

Proponent of industrial organisation

21 Nov 2021 12:16 AM IST
Building upon the concepts regulating monopolies and oligopolies, Jean Tirole used game theory and industrial organisation to present a general theory...

Exponents of asset pricing

14 Nov 2021 12:23 AM IST
While Eugene Francis Fama attributed the difficulty in short-run predictions to efficient markets and Robert James Shiller contradicted him by holding...

The matchmakers

6 Nov 2021 10:24 PM IST
While the prolific game theorist Lloyd Stowell Shapley laid out the theoretical ground in the form of Gale-Shapley algorithm, Alvin Elliot Roth...

Cause-effect relations

30 Oct 2021 11:32 PM IST
Analysing the effects of external shocks on macroeconomy, Thomas John Sargent factored in rational expectations and their impact, while Christopher...

Innovators of search market

24 Oct 2021 1:03 AM IST
Diamond, Mortensen and Pissarides formulated a theoretical framework for search markets in which buyers and sellers do not always make contact with...

The Nobel Series: Alternative economic governance

16 Oct 2021 11:57 PM IST
While Elinor Ostrom dealt with overcoming collective action dilemmas in managing natural resources, Oliver Eaton Williamson is well-known for building...

The Nobel series: Krugman's 'new economic geography'

9 Oct 2021 10:47 PM IST
Taking cue from the growing intra-industry trade, Paul Robin Krugman incorporated economies of scale and consumers’ preference for diverse goods to...

Mathematicians' & mechanism design

3 Oct 2021 12:58 AM IST
While Leonid ‘Leo’ Hurwicz gave the theory of incentive compatibility in mechanism design, Eric Stark Maskin and Roger Bruce Myerson extended his work...

Explorer of new vistas

25 Sept 2021 11:36 PM IST
Apart from providing microeconomic foundation to macroeconomic theories, Edmund Strother Phelps, going beyond the Keynesian hypothesis, clarified the...

The ace game theorists

19 Sept 2021 1:29 AM IST
While Robert John Aumann applied his mathematical skills to developing his works on repeated games, Thomas Crombie Schelling laid out simple and lucid...

Proponents of dynamic macroeconomics

12 Sept 2021 12:07 AM IST
Contrary to the Keynesian view that changes in aggregate demand drove business cycles, the works of Finn Erling Kydland and Edward Christian Prescott...
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