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The Nobel Series: Father of national income accounting

27 March 2021 11:35 PM IST
John Richard Nicholas Stone’s work was underpinned by a Keynesian theoretical framework — the application of which reached internationally...

The Nobel Series: The mathematical economist

20 March 2021 10:39 PM IST
Gerard Debreu’s axiomatization approach established coherent proof of general equilibrium theory, paving way for further research but it also...

The Nobel Series: Pacemaker of industrial organisation

13 March 2021 11:27 PM IST
Through his extensive contribution in applied research, George Stigler institutionalised information in neoclassical framework and integrated...

The Nobel Series : Father of Portfolio Selection Theory

6 March 2021 10:43 PM IST
James Tobin showed how individual decisions determine equilibrium price and interest rate, and how fluctuations in financial markets get transmitted...

The Nobel Series: Stalwart of macroeconometric modelling

27 Feb 2021 11:40 PM IST
Lawrence Klein's models laid the ground for quantitative analysis of economic policies — at the same time — defined the contours of econometrics

The Nobel Series : Trailblazers of development research

20 Feb 2021 10:56 PM IST
Theodore Schultz’s human capital theory and Arthur Lewis’ dual economy shifted the growth discourse towards developing countries with an intrinsic...

The Nobel Series : Bounded rationality

13 Feb 2021 10:55 PM IST
Simon’s multidisciplinary approach challenged the neoclassical assumption of profit maximisation and redefined decision-making as an effort to achieve...

Masters of International Trade

6 Feb 2021 11:27 PM IST
Bertil Ohlin's extension of Ricardian comparative advantage theory to include factors of production and James Meade's stabilisation theory continue to...

Pioneer of Monetary Economics

31 Jan 2021 12:03 AM IST
Milton Friedman’s breakthrough work put Monetary policy on an equal pedestal to Keynesian only-fiscal approach; which continues to shape the political...

The Nobel Series: Kantorovich & Koopmans

23 Jan 2021 11:42 PM IST
Leonid Kantorovich and Tjalling C Koopmans made major contributions to the field of economic planning by way of developing the theory of the optimal...

The Nobel Series : Early institutionalists

16 Jan 2021 11:09 PM IST
In emphasising the role of in institutions in their economic analysis, Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich von Hayek paved the way for later research in...

The Nobel Series: Leontief & Input-Output model

9 Jan 2021 10:58 PM IST
Wassily Leontief’s input-output model was a pathbreaking tool for analysing inter-sectoral dependencies in the economy — an innovation that helped...
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