The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With four chapters on themes in MIT economics and 38 chapters on the lives and work of MIT economists, this book shows how economics became established at the Institute, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including Paul Samuelson, Franco Modigliani and Robert Solow, and how it remains a global force for the very best in teaching and research in economics. With original contributions from a stellar cast, the volumes provide economists – especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of economic thought – with an in-depth analysis of MIT economics.
Part I Themes in MIT Economics.- 1 Robert Merton Solow: Macroeconomics
of Medium-Run Dynamics.- 2 MIT and the Other Cambridge.- 3 MITs Rise to
Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography.- 4 Economic History at
MIT.- Part II Some MIT Economists.- 5 Francis Amasa Walker (18401897).- 6
Davis Dewey (18581942).- 7 Paul Rosenstein-Rodan (19021985).- 8 Harold
Freeman (19091997).- 9 Charles P. Kindleberger (19102003).- 10 Charles A.
Myers (1913-2000).- 11 Paul A. Samuelson (19152009).- 12 E. Cary Brown
(19162007).- 13 Sidney Stuart Alexander (19162005).- 14 Morris A. Adelman
(19172014).- 15 Franco Modigliani (19182003).- 16 Robert M. Solow
(19242023).- 17 Edwin Kuh (19251986).- 18 Peter Temin (1937).- 19 Lester
Thurow (19382016).- 20 Ann F. Friedlaender (19381992).- 21 Peter Diamond
(1940).- 22 Stewart C. Myers (1940).- 23 Michael Piore (1940).- 24 Rudiger
Dornbusch (19422002).- 25 John C. Cox (1943).- 26 Stanley Fischer
(1943).- 27 William C. Wheaton (1944).- 28 Robert C. Merton (1944).- 29
Robert S. Pindyck (1945).- 30 Paul Lewis Joskow (1947).- 31 Olivier
Blanchard (1948).- 32 Paul Krugman (1953).- 33 Jean Tirole (1953).- 34
Nancy L. Rose (1958).- 35 James A. Poterba (1958).- 36 Ricardo J. Caballero
(1959).- 37 Joshua David Angrist (1960).- 38 Abhijit Banerjee (1961).- 39
Glenn Ellison (1965).- 40 Daron Acemoglu (1967).- 41 Esther Duflo
(1972).- 42 Amy Finkelstein (1973).
Robert A. Cord holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and his areas of interest include the history of economic thought and, within this, the history of macroeconomics. His publications include Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution (2012), Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy (co-editor; 2016) and The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics (editor; 2024).
