an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too – with more than enough warts and …'s remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might …

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper … explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … derive sharp predictions concerning how key factors which shape a country's business and trade environment impact on the …

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk …

-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a sharp increase in income uncertainty. While the … a buffer-stock savings model and show that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms lead younger and older … households, respectively, to raise their saving rates. These two factors account for over half of the increase in China's urban …

are too impatient to save and too risk averse to take the sort of chances needed to accumulate wealth. The empirical … the issues confounding previous analyses of the links between risk preferences and well-being. Our sample includes more … on risk preferences, we find little evidence of robust links between risk aversion and well-being. However, when we …

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using … in levels of fatal risk. The paper contrasts VSL estimates from conventional analysis with the bounds obtained under this …