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He put forth the so-called Easterlin paradox, finding that the richer you are doesn't mean the more satisfied you'll be with your life. Does getting a year-end bonus or raise [...]

S IR KIT MCMAHON, who has died aged 97, was an Australian-born economist who became deputy governor of the Bank of England, and chairman of the Midland Bank at the […]

Byline: Matt Schudel Clifton R. Wharton Jr., who shattered racial barriers in a multifaceted career in education, international development and business, serving as the first Black president of a major, [...]

He was the first African American to become president of a large white university, C.E.O. of a major corporation and deputy secretary of state. When Clifton R. Wharton Jr. was [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Manmohan Singh, who has died aged 92, was the technocrat behind the economic reforms that led to India's emergence as a world power, first as finance minister [...]

Prague, July 25 (CTK) - Czech economist Karel Dyba, who was the economy minister in Vaclav Klaus's governments in the early 1990s and later the permanent representative of the Czech [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The following information was released by Ross School of Business: By Bob Needham Many members of the University of Michigan business faculty have integrated public service [...]

He heralded stock options and golden parachutes as a professor at Harvard Business School, influencing a generation of Wall Street executives. Michael C. Jensen, an economist and Harvard Business School [...]

Byline: Chris Power Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist and best-selling author whose Nobel Prize-winning research upended economics - as well as fields ranging from sports to public health - by [...]

Byline: Chris Power Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist and best-selling author whose Nobel Prize-winning research upended economics - as well as fields ranging from sports to public health - by [...]

Byline: DARRYL COOTE March 28 (UPI) -- Pioneering psychology scholar Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work applying cognitive psychology to economic analysis, has died. [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the [...]

ITHACA, NY -- The following information was released by Cornell University: By David Nutt Nicholas M. Kiefer, an economist whose deep curiosity and sharp insights into statistics and economic theory [...]

As a professor at the Wharton School and a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field, she developed new ways of thinking about tough issues. Anita A. Summers, an economist at [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Cato Institute: Ian Vasquez Economist James Gwartney passed away at age 83 on Sunday. He was a prolific academic, a colleague [...]

He was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country's rising health care costs. Victor R. Fuchs, whose comprehensive grasp of the challenges [...]

He was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care costs. Victor R. Fuchs, whose comprehensive grasp of the challenges [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The following information was released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): Nobel-winning scholar changed his field, taught generations of students, and helped make MIT a global [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Harry Markowitz, a Nobel laureate economist who applied the adage 'don't put all your eggs in one basket' to the world of stock investing and risk, developing [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Harry Markowitz, a Nobel laureate economist who applied the adage 'don't put all your eggs in one basket' to the world of stock investing and risk, developing [...]

He overturned the traditional approach to buying stocks by examining the relationship between risk and reward. Harry M. Markowitz, an economist who launched a revolution in finance, upending traditional thinking [...]

An educator who served in the Obama administration, he championed workers, especially Black workers, and challenged his profession's racial assumptions. William E. Spriggs, who in a four-decade career in economics [...]

UWE KITZINGER, who has died aged 95, was a refugee from Nazi Germany who became a key figure in Britain's first involvement in the European Economic Community (EEC). He also […]

Byline: Emily Langer Robert E. Lucas Jr., a Nobel laureate who helped set in motion a seismic shift in economic thought by challenging assumptions about the power of government intervention [...]

Challenging the theories of John Maynard Keynes, he questioned the idea that government intervention could help steer the economy. Robert E. Lucas Jr., a contrarian Nobel laureate in economics who [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Kemal Dervis, a Turkish economist who left the World Bank to return home in 2001 as a crisis manager with Turkey's economy collapsing, helping calm the fiscal [...]

As an economics professor, she found serious flaws in how government determines who is poor in America. As under secretary of commerce, she fixed them. As far as her husband [...]

As an economics professor, she found serious flaws in how government determines who is poor in America. As under secretary of commerce, she fixed them. As far as her husband [...]

PITTSBURGH, PA -- The following information was released by Carnegie Mellon University: Robert J. Lucas, Jr., American economist and former Graduate School of Industrial Administration faculty member, passed away on [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Edward Prescott, a Nobel laureate economist who urged policymakers to take the long view on economic strategies and resist short-range tinkering over issues such as employment and [...]

Perhaps the best-known ecological economist, he faulted his mainstream peers for failing to account for the environmental harm growth can bring. Herman Daly, who for more than 50 years argued [...]