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Economists
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Hoover Institution: Milton Friedman 
 Biography of economist Milton Friedman, "recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science [and] a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1977 to 2006. He passed away on Nov. 16, 2006." Discusses Friedman's work on monetary economics, his writing on public policy, and other accomplishments. Also includes transcripts, audio, and video from talks and interviews. From the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University. http://www.hoover.org/bios/friedman.html Topics: Economics, Notable People Last updated Mar 25, 2007 Intellectual Journey, Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: Conversation With John Kenneth Galbraith
Transcript and video of an interview with John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), "Professor of Economics at Harvard for more than fifty years; writer and author of more than 20 books, including 'The New Industrial State' ... [and] advisor to President Kennedy." Some of the interview topics include good writing, U.S. Third World policy during the Cold War, political leadership, and intellectuals in government. From the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Galbraith/galbraith1.html Topics: Economics, Notable People Last updated May 3, 2006 MacArthur Fellows Program Overview
Commonly known as the "genius grants," this MacArthur Foundation program "awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction." Fellows have included "scientists, historians, poets and novelists, artists and composers, and people working in public service." Read biographies of current recipients of the grants, and browse lists of fellows back to 1981. http://www.macfound.org/programs/fel/fel_overview.htm Topics: Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities Last updated Sep 28, 2009 Malthus
Lighthearted introduction to the life of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), who was "an English clergyman and political economist -- the originator of Malthusian population theory. Broadly stated, Malthusian theory holds that human and other populations will increase until checked by natural limitations, principally to do with food supply." According to the site, "his family called him Bob." Includes a biography and brief genealogy information. From "a descendant of Bob's older brother, Sydenham (Syd, probably)." http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~kh/index.html Topics: Economics Last updated Sep 4, 2008 Malthus Bicentenary Conference 1998
Collection of papers from a conference commemorating the 200th anniversary of 1798 publication of "An Essay on the Principle of Population" by Thomas Robert Malthus. Malthus predicted that the human population rate would increase faster than the food supply. Topics include Malthus and the Third World, and Malthus and his critics. From the National Academies Forum, "the peak organisation for the four Australian learned academies." http://www.naf.org.au/papers.htm Topics: Economics Last updated Sep 3, 2008 The New York Times: Paul Krugman
Compilations of articles by and about Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, author, professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. Features Krugman's opinion pieces for The Times, his blog "Conscience of a Liberal," and selected links to related websites. From The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/ Topics: Economics Last updated Nov 6, 2008 Time 100: John Maynard Keynes
Profile of this British economist whose "radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism." Includes a discussion of his background ("a Cambridge University don with a flair for making money ... [and] the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group) and his influential publications. Part of Time magazine's series on the most important people of the 20th century. http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/keynes.html Topics: Economics, Notable People Last updated Jun 6, 2006 Women & the Economy
This website focuses on the position of women in the economy. Topics includes a brief history of economic thinkers (such as Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes); background about money, banking, debt, economics and war, and feminist economics; women's economic contributions and economic inequality; women and globalization; and economic alternatives, such as barter systems and food buying clubs. Also includes stories about individual women. From the UN Platform for Action Committee (UNPAC). http://www.unpac.ca/economy/index2.html Topics: Economics, Notable People: Women Last updated May 29, 2007 |
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