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Introduction It has been well said that Paul A. Samuelson is the last great general economist--never again will any one person make such foundational contributions to so many distinct areas [...]

The world-renowned Nobel Laureate mathematical economist Gerard Debreu passed away on December 31, 2004 at the age of 83. The economic profession will long grieve the loss of a genius [...]

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, one of the great but unorthodox economists, the founder of the theory of bioeconomics and one of the fathers of the environmental movement, died on October 30, 1994, [...]

Kenneth J. Arrow, widely recognized as one of the 20th century's leading economists and decision analysts and a 1972 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, passed away on Feb. [...]

Karl Brunner, 1916-1989 On May 9, 1989, Karl Brunner died of a non-malignant spinal tumor at his home in Rochester, N.Y. Although disabled by his illness, he continued to work [...]

NBER Research Associate Kathryn L. Shaw, a Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration, was nominated by President Clinton to be a Member of the [...]

Martin B. Zimmerman, a new director-at-large of the National Bureau of Economic Research, has been vice president-governmental affairs of the Ford Motor Corporation since January 1, 1999. Zimmerman joined Ford [...]

Francis X. Diebold is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing. He is the Armellino Visiting Professor of Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, [...]

Ed Ames, one of the few Renaissance men in Economics, was one of the early leaders in the study of the Soviet Economy and Comparative Economic Systems but his range [...]

The Association notes with regret that Zora Pryor, a longtime member of the Association, passed away on 23 August 2008. She was the author of monographs oil the labour force [...]

Thomas C. Buchmueller is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs in Health Care and Health Economics. He received his B.A. in Economics from Carleton College in 1985 and his [...]

H. Naci Mocan has been an NBER Research Associate since 1995 in the Health Economics Program and the Program on Children. Now a Professor of Economics and Chairman of the [...]

Olivia S. Mitchell is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs in Aging and Labor Studies. She is also the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and [...]

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH. 1908-2006 'Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.' --JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH LOVED words. Above [...]

Robert L. Heilbroner, who died January 4 at the age of 85, was one of a dwindling generation of professional economists who had broad humanistic curiosity and progressive values, and [...]