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Robert Giffen, 1837-1910, was a Scottish economist and statistician who also had a great reputation in the fields of finance and taxation. He also participated in the editing process in numerous publication, such as the Daily News, The Economist and The Times. However, Robert Giffen is mostly known for giving name to the concept Giffen goods. It was Alfred Marshall who, in the third edition of his “Principles of Economics”,1895, wrote: “As Mr. Giffen has pointed out, a rise in the price of bread...

Abram Bergson, 1914-2003, was an American economist that worked for many governmental and federal agencies including the Russian Economic subdivision of the Office of Strategic Services. He was also a professor at Columbia University, Texas and Harvard. His main area of research was welfare economics but he also provided a lot of research and studies of the Soviet Union economy, marked by a combination of encyclopaedic knowledge of Soviet statistics, theoretical analysis and immense industry kno...

Roy Forbes Harrod, 1900-1978, was an English economist, friend and a follower of John Maynard Keynes. He published a wide variety of economic papers, many of which were on economic growth, but he also conducted research on currency and inflation. In addition, he also wrote about memory and the theory of knowledge, reflecting on probability as a limitation to induction. Through his works underlines a dynamic view of the economy, more sophisticated and realistic, therefore, than the static view of...

Richard George Lipsey is a Canadian economist born in 1928, who has been Professor at Simon Fraser University for most of his academic career. He has also held professorial posts at the London School of Economics, Essex University and Queen’s University in Kingston, as well as visiting professorships at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, Manchester, and the University of British Columbia. Richard Lipsey is mostly known for his article, co-authored with Kelvin Lancaster “The General ...

Merton Howard Miller, 1923-2000, was an American economist who taught at the London School of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University and lastly, and for most of his career, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He also worked as public director on the Chicago Board of Trade (1983-1985) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1990 until his death. He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Economic Sciences in 1990 along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe for their work in the fina...

Harold Hotelling, 1895-1973, was an American statistician and an important economic theorist. He was Associate Professor at Stanford University and Professor at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Amongst his pupils we can highlight Kenneth Arrow and Milton Friedman. His greatest contribution was to the monopolistic competition field. Harold Hotelling developed in his article “Stability in Competition”, 1929, what is known nowadays as the Hotelling model or l...