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The welfarist academician
27 Nov 2021 11:46 PM ISTAngus 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 ISTBuilding 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 ISTWhile 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 ISTWhile 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 ISTAnalysing 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 ISTDiamond, 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 ISTWhile 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 ISTTaking 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 ISTWhile 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 ISTApart 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 ISTWhile 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 ISTContrary to the Keynesian view that changes in aggregate demand drove business cycles, the works of Finn Erling Kydland and Edward Christian Prescott...