The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Professor Annette Vogt will present two lectures on the history of Nobel prize and Nobel laureats.
Students are expected to read the following papers, since the second part of class will be devoted to discussion. Please come prepared.
Literature (History of Economic Thought)
Horn, Karen Ilse. Roads to Wisdom. Conversations with Ten Nobel Laureates in Economics.Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2009 (dt.: München: Carl HanserVerlag, 2012).
Karier, Thomas. Intellectual Capital. Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics.Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010.
Lindbeck, Assar. The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1969-2000. In: Levinovitz, Agneta W., Ringertz, Nils (eds).
The Nobel Prize. The First 100 Years. London and Singapore: Imperial College Press and WorldScientific Publishing, 2001, pp. 197-217.
Samuelson, Paul A., Barnett, William A. (eds) Inside the Economist's Mind. Conversationswith Eminent Economists. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
Szenberg, Michael (ed.) Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies. Cambridge:Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.
Vasina, Ljudmila L. Nobelevskije laureaty XX veka. Ekonomika. Enciklopedicheskij slovar'.Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2001.
Weintraub, E. Roy. Autobiographical memory and the historiography of economics. In:Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27 (2), 2005, pp. 1-11.
Weintraub, E. Roy. History of Thought Introduction: Economists talking with economists: Anhistorian's perspective. In: Samuelson, Barnett (2007), pp. 1-10.(In: Samuelson, Paul A., Barnett, William A. (eds) Inside the Economist's Mind.Conversations with Eminent Economists. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 1-10.)