Edited by Howard R. Vane, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Chris Mulhearn, formerly Reader in Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

‘What a brilliant idea! To provide readers with both information on the Nobel Laureates in Economics and, to the degree possible, the original papers for which they were honored. The names of the “contributing” Laureates speak for themselves. Howard Vane and Chris Mulhearn, the editors, and Edward Elgar, the publisher, are to be congratulated for putting the idea into effect.’

• Contents:AcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionHoward R. Vane and Chris MulhearnPART IRAGNAR A.K. FRISCH Introduction to Part I: Ragnar A.K. Frisch (1895–1973)1. Ragnar Frisch (1933), ‘Propagation Problems and Impulse Problems in Dynamic Economics’2. Ragnar Frisch (1934), ‘Circulation Planning: Proposal for a National Organization of a Commodity and Service Exchange’ and ‘Circulation Planning: Part III. Mathematical Appendix’3. Ragnar Frisch (1936a), ‘Annual Survey of General Economic Theory: The Problem of Index Numbers’4. Ragnar Frisch (1936b), ‘On the Notion of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium’5. Ragnar Frisch (1981), ‘From Utopian Theory to Practical Applications: The Case of Econometrics’PART IIJAN TINBERGEN Introduction to Part II: Jan Tinbergen (1903-94)6. J. Tinbergen (1940a), ‘Econometric Business Cycle Research’7. J. Tinbergen (1940b), ‘On a Method of Statistical Business-Cycle Research: A Reply’8. Jan Tinbergen (1952), ‘The Logical Structure of the Normal Quantitative Policy Problem (Targets and Instruments in Equal Numbers); Directives’ and ‘Inequality Between Number of Targets and Number of Instruments: Alternative Instruments or Incompatible Targets’9. Jan Tinbergen (1959), ‘An Economic Policy for 1936’PART IIILAWRENCE R. KLEIN Introduction to Part III: Lawrence R. Klein (b. 1920)10. Lawrence R. Klein (1947), ‘Theories of Effective Demand and Employment’11. Harold Barger and Lawrence R. Klein (1954), ‘A Quarterly Model for the United States Economy’12. L.R. Klein (1958), ‘The Estimation of Distributed Lags’13. Lawrence R. Klein (1964), ‘A Postwar Quarterly Model: Description and Applications’14. Gary Fromm and Lawrence R. Klein (1965), ‘The Brookings-S.S.R.C. Quarterly Econometric Model of the United States: Model Properties’15. Phoebus J. Dhrymes, Lawrence R. Klein and Kenneth Steiglitz (1970), ‘Estimation of Distributed Lags’