| The Nobel Prize Winners in Economic Sciences | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Rationalist and Individual Choice | p. 5 |
| Rational People Do Good Things | p. 7 |
| The Dangers of Big Government, Firsthand | p. 17 |
| Explaining Our Social Relationships | p. 23 |
| Questioning Neoclassical Theory | p. 32 |
| Limits to Rationality and the Role of Government | p. 37 |
| Individual Rationality and Collective Irrationality | p. 39 |
| The Tension Between Individual and Social Welfare | p. 49 |
| A Better Way to Handle Externalities | p. 62 |
| Is There Room in Economics for Ethics? | p. 73 |
| Measuring to Understand | p. 81 |
| Business Cycles and Dynamic Analysis | p. 83 |
| Balancing Realism With Simplicity | p. 94 |
| Acknowledging and Incorporating Errors | p. 99 |
| Probability in Econometric Models | p. 104 |
| Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, and Policy Wonks | p. 107 |
| When Cycles Become Depressions | p. 111 |
| Business Cycles and the Unemployment-Inflation Trade-Off | p. 113 |
| When Government Involvement Interferes With Economic Efficiency | p. 132 |
| Holding Money Is the Reverse of Money Turnover | p. 145 |
| The Perverse Effects of Expectations | p. 152 |
| How Does Economic Policy Work in the Real World? | p. 161 |
| The Model Builders | p. 167 |
| Everything Depends on Everything Else | p. 169 |
| Filling the Theoretical Boxes | p. 177 |
| The Building Blocks of Income, Employment, and Prices | p. 185 |
| Documenting National Income and Growth | p. 192 |
| Economic Growth and Development | p. 201 |
| The Theory Underlying Economic Growth | p. 203 |
| Accounting for Human Capital Investment | p. 217 |
| Bringing Economic Development to Poor Nations | p. 226 |
| Using Econometrics to Explain Economic Development | p. 234 |
| Development Issues for the Mature Economy | p. 241 |
| Financing Growth-Promoting Investments | p. 249 |
| Historical Perspectives | p. 251 |
| Explaining a Firm's Financing Decision | p. 266 |
| Incorporating Time in the Financial Decision | p. 272 |
| Globalizing Resource Allocation | p. 281 |
| Combining Public Investment With Private Investment to Promote Growth | p. 297 |
| Society's Institutions: Their Origins and Potential for Change | p. 311 |
| People's Interactions Are Like Games | p. 313 |
| Some Games Are Improved by Bargaining | p. 329 |
| Games Without Full Information Require Use of Probabilities | p. 340 |
| How Institutions Have Evolved | p. 349 |
| Changing One "Peculiar" Institution | p. 356 |
| Conclusion | p. 361 |
| Notes | p. 371 |
| Further Reading | p. 381 |
| Index | p. 389 |
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