Nobel Lectures In Economic Sciences, Vol 2 (1981-1990): The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank Of Sweden) Prize In Economic Sciences In Memory Of Alfred Nobel ... in Memory of Alfred Nobel Nobel Lectures) - Tapa blanda

"As the editor observes, the economists whose work is depicted here in the presentation speeches, the laureates' usually brief autobiographical accounts, and the lectures, have made various contributions to the discipline." The World Economy

Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1981 - 1990 with a description of the works which won them their prizes:(1981) J TOBIN - for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices; (1982) G J STIGLER - for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation; (1983) G DEBREU - for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium; (1984) R STONE - for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis; (1985) F MODIGLIANI - for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets; (1986) J BUCHANAN, JR - for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making; (1987) R M SOLOW - for his contributions to the theory of economic growth; (1988) M ALLAIS - for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources; (1989) T HAAVELMO - for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrices and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures; (1990) H M MARKOWITZ, M H MILLER & W F SHARPE - for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics.