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Dr. Claudia GoldinHarvard University“American Leadership and the Human Capital Century: The Virtues of the Past”05/22/07
Jean TiroleInstitut d Economie Industrielle“Platform industries: How telecoms, software , credit cards,media, and videogames differ from other markets, and what it means for the future of the economy”04/25/06
Ernst FehrUniversity of Zurich“The Nature of Human Altruism”03/07/05
Edward C. PrescottArizona State University“Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans”02/10/04
Stephen A. RossMassachusetts Institute o“Behavioral Finance”02/26/03
John Y. CampbellHarvard University“Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors”05/14/02
Robert WilsonStanford Business School“Electricity Market Design”05/16/01
Charles PlottCalifornia Institute of T“Markets as Info. Gathering Tools: Rational Expectationsand the Uses of Laboratory Methods in Economi”05/24/00
Kenneth BinmoreUniversity College London“How and Why did Fairness Norms Evolve?”10/14/98
William SharpeStanford University“Investments: Theory and Practice”02/26/98
Vernon L. SmithArizona University“Experimental Economics”05/14/97
Douglass C. NorthWashington University“Order, Disorder and Change: Problems in the Transistion Economies of Eastern Europe”04/03/96
Paul KrugmanStanford University“The End of the Washington Consensus”04/13/95
Merton MilleUniversity of Chicago“Rambo vs. Godzilla - US-Japanese Trade Relations in the Nineties”04/21/94
Jeffrey SachsHarvard University“Russia's Economic Prospects”05/05/93
James HeckmanUniversity of Chicago“The Impact of Civil Rights and Affirmative Action Policies on the Economic Status of Black Americans”05/07/92
Gordon TullockUniversity of Arizona“Public Choice: The Economics of Politics”05/17/91
Donald McCloskeyUniversity of Iowa“If You're So Smart...”03/16/90
Lawrence SummersHarvard University“National Saving and The American Competitiveness Problem”05/04/89
F. M. SchererSwarthmore College“The World Productivity Slump”04/28/88
Mancur OlsonUniversity of Maryland“The Rise and Decline of Nations - Further Thoughts”05/27/87
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.University of Chicago“On the Mechanics of Economic Development”05/19/86
Daniel L. McFaddenMIT“Is There Life After Debt: The Plight of the Third World Countries”04/04/85
Gerard DebreuUniversity of California,“Economic Theory in the Mathematical Mode”05/17/84
Thomas SargentUniversity of Minnesota“Reaganomics and Credibility”04/21/83
Zvi GrilichesHarvard University“Analyzing Patent Statistics, Problems and Promise”11/10/81
Robert HallStanford University“Racial Monetary Reform to End Inflation”05/19/81
Amartya SenOxford University“Famines”04/22/80
Armen A. AlchianUCLA“Misfortunes of Economic Misperceptions”04/24/79
Robert W. FogelHarvard University“Cliometrics and Culture: Some Recent Developments in the Historiography of Slavery”01/16/79
Peter DiamondMIT“Improving Social Security”02/08/78
Gary BeckerUniversity of Chicago“The Role of Altrusim and Selfishness in Economic Life”01/26/78
Martin S. FeldsteinHarvard University“The Health Care Crisis and National Health Insurance”01/18/77
Ezra MishanLondon School of Economic“Economic Progress and the Good Life: Are They Compatible”11/02/76
James M. BuchananVirginia Polytechnic Inst“Keynesian Economics and Democracy”01/21/76
Marc NerloveNorthwestern University“Household and Economy: Toward a Theory of Population and Economic Growth”04/03/75
William J. BaumolNew York University“Public Subvention to the Arts”02/14/74
Leonid HurwiczUniversity of Minnesota“Utopia and the Status Quo”04/12/73
Kenneth J. ArrowHarvard University“The Economics of Social Responsibility”04/19/72
Dale W. JorgensonHarvard University“Explanation of Productivity Changes: Sources of United States' Economic Growth”05/13/71
Harry JohnsonUniversity of Chicago“The International Monetary Problem”05/28/70
Gregory C. ChowIBM“The Uses and Limitations of Economics for Public Policy”04/09/69
Robert SolowMIT“The Problem of Inflation”04/03/68
Lawrence KleinUniversity of Pennsylvani“Government Policy and the American Economy: A Two Year Economic Forecast”05/24/67
George StiglerUniversity of Chicago“The Triumph of Ignorance over Prejudice”03/15/66
James TobinYale University“The Future of the Dollar as International Money”03/23/65
Milton FriedmanUniversity of Chicago“Money Management in the United States: The Record”03/10/64
Paul A. SamuelsonMIT“Economic Stagnation”04/16/63
Gardiner C. MeansCommittee for Economic De“Pricing Power and Public Interest”05/17/62