Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics

Robert A. Cord holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and his areas of interest include the history of economic thought and, within this, the history of macroeconomics. His publications include Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution (2012), Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy (co-editor; 2016) and The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics (editor; 2024).

• Part I Themes in MIT Economics.- 1 Robert Merton Solow: Macroeconomics of Medium-Run Dynamics.- 2 MIT and the Other Cambridge.- 3 MIT’s Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography.- 4 Economic History at MIT.- Part II Some MIT Economists.- 5 Francis Amasa Walker (1840–1897).- 6 Davis Dewey (1858–1942).- 7 Paul Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985).- 8 Harold Freeman (1909–1997).- 9 Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003).- 10 Charles A. Myers (1913-2000).- 11 Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009).- 12 E. Cary Brown (1916–2007).- 13 Sidney Stuart Alexander (1916–2005).- 14 Morris A. Adelman (1917–2014).- 15 Franco Modigliani (1918–2003).- 16 Robert M. Solow (1924–2023).- 17 Edwin Kuh (1925–1986).- 18 Peter Temin (1937–).- 19 Lester Thurow (1938–2016).- 20 Ann F. Friedlaender (1938–1992).- 21 Peter Diamond (1940–).- 22 Stewart C. Myers (1940–).- 23 Michael Piore (1940–).- 24 Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002).- 25 John C. Cox (1943–).- 26 Stanley Fischer (1943–).- 27 William C. Wheaton (1944–).- 28 Robert C. Merton (1944–).- 29 Robert S. Pindyck (1945–).- 30 Paul Lewis Joskow (1947–).- 31 Olivier Blanchard (1948–).- 32 Paul Krugman (1953–).- 33 Jean Tirole (1953–).- 34 Nancy L. Rose (1958–).- 35 James A. Poterba (1958–).- 36 Ricardo J. Caballero (1959–).- 37 Joshua David Angrist  (1960–).- 38 Abhijit Banerjee (1961–).- 39 Glenn Ellison (1965–).- 40 Daron Acemoglu (1967–).- 41 Esther Duflo (1972–).- 42 Amy Finkelstein (1973–).