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Robert L. Tignor is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. He teaches courses on modern African history and world history and publishes on the same subjects.
W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island...
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"Co-Winner of the 2018 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society" Ian Kumekawa is a PhD candidate in history at Harvard University, where he works on the history of economic thinking.
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists
The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics...
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Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences-Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action-describing how musicians who didn't know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music. When they wrote it, they lived at opposite ends of the country: Faulkner in Massachusetts, Becker in San Francisco. Instead of sitting around talking about...
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When Richard Nixon said "We are all Keynesians now" in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago's business school and its departments of economics and political science. These thinkers, including Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, George Stigler, Robert Lucas, and...
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