Robert A. Mundell: A Profile

This essay is a short introduction to the work of Robert A. Mundell, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1999. It is a contribution to a special issue of Review of International Economics .     

The Economic Contributions of Robert A. Mundell

This is the second in a series of articles surveying the contributions of recent recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. The 1999 recipient of the prize, Robert A. Mundell, has made important contributions in several fields, including the theory of the monetary and fiscal policy mix, the monetary approach to the balance of payments, the theory of optimal currency areas and supply-side economics. This paper provides an overview and critical evaluation of these contributions.     

罗伯特J·奥曼简要传记

<正>1930年,罗伯特.奥曼出生于德国法兰克福一个生活较富裕的传统犹太家庭。为了逃避纳粹的迫害,1938年,他与全家人移居美国纽约。在这一过程中,他的父母失去了一切,却仍然为他们的两个孩子提供了优秀的犹太族教育和普通教育。奥曼在耶什华小学和中学完成了初等教育,1950年在纽约城市大学获得学士学位,并于1955年从麻省理工学院获得数学博士学位。     

Economic Justice in American Society. By Robert E. Kuenne

Jane Smiley's novel, Moo, is reviewed for the models of social economy portrayed therein. The models are those of the faculty, university governance, and the students, as well as the total social economy and valuation process to which the foregoing contribute. The basic story, portrayed in part through tales of the lives and foibles of individuals, is one of resource allocation, organization and control, distribution of gains and sacrifices, and the working out of the purposes, values, and objectives of an institution. Also covered is the tale of a faculty economist who lives his life along the lines of the self-interested rationality model.     

罗伯特·达尔经济民主思想述评

文章对罗伯特·达尔的经济民主思想做了初步述评。达尔认为,经济民主可以进一步地推动政治民主,解决多元民主的某些弊病。但是经济民主可能与政治民主的某些价值相冲突,而且它自身的实现也有许多困难。     

The contributions of W. H. Hutt

Conclusions We feel that we understand another when his points seem consistent with our prior beliefs. The great difficulty that Hutt faced was that the concepts comprising the macroeconomic superstructure, in which—by now—so many have so much invested, are difficult to integrate with an understanding of how a money-using catallaxy functions. He believed that he had to go beneath them, to some kind of foundation on which we could all agree, and then construct almost a parallel universe, a new (which he always insisted was old) conceptual structure adequate to the task.His exposition is considerably less unfamiliar to those already well acquainted with the subjectivist analysis of catallactic processes. William Hutt was driven by his understanding that the market excels at producing and equitably distributing wealth. Economists could help, or at least not get in the way, only if they understood the functioning of a monetary catallaxy. Developing and conveying that understanding was Hutt's life work, and in it there is much of value that the well-read Austrian cannot afford to miss.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the History of Economics Society meeting in Richmond, Virginia, June 1989.