Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history ofmodern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three Nobel Prizelaureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of ourtime but also shed light on the processes of intellectual discovery and creativity. The accounts areaccessible and engaging, achieving clarity without sacrificing inherently difficult content.

This sixth edition adds four recent Nobelists to its pages: Eric Maskin, whoillustrates his explanation of mechanism design with an example involving a mother, a cake, and twochildren; Joseph Stiglitz, who recounts his field's ideological wars linked to policy disputes; PaulKrugman, who describes the insights he gained from studying the model of the Capitol HillBabysitting Coop (and the recession it suffered when more people wanted to accumulate babysittingcoupons than redeem them); and Peter Diamond, who maps his development from student to teacher topolicy analyst. Lives of the Laureates grows out of a continuing lecture seriesat Trinity University in San Antonio, which invites Nobelists from American universities to describetheir evolution as economists in personal as well as technical terms. These lectures demonstrate therichness and diversity of contemporary economic thought. The reader will find that paths cross inunexpected ways--that disparate thinkers were often influenced by the same teachers -- and that luckas well as hard work plays a role in the process of scientificdiscovery.

The LaureatesLawrence R. Klein • Kenneth J.Arrow • Paul A. Samuelson • Milton Friedman • George J. Stigler • JamesTobin • Franco Modigliani • James M. Buchanan • Robert M. Solow • William F.Sharpe • Douglass C. North • Myron S. Scholes • Gary S. Becker • Robert E.Lucas, Jr. • James J. Heckman • Vernon L. Smith • Edward C. Prescott •Thomas C. Schelling • Edmund S. Phelps • Eric S. Maskin • Joseph E. Stiglitz• Paul Krugman • Peter A. Diamond

Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the field of economics in health care and the evaluation of health care technologies.

This new edition has been fully updated with up-to-date case studies from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World.  It includes a new chapter on health care labour markets and contains new material integrated throughout the text on the economics of public health.

• Adopts an international perspective towards topics in health economics
• Creates a useful balance of theoretical treatment and practical application throughout the book
• Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics.

Discrete probability theory and the theory of algorithms have become close partners over the last ten years, though the roots of this partnership go back much longer. The papers in this volume address the latest developments in this active field. They are from the IMA Workshops 'Probability and Algorithms' and 'The Finite Markov Chain Renaissance.' They represent the current thinking of many of the world's leading experts in the field.

Researchers and graduate students in probability, computer science, combinatorics, and optimization theory will all be interested in this collection of articles. The techniques developed and surveyed in this volume are still undergoing rapid development, and many of the articles of the collection offer an expositionally pleasant entree into a research area of growing importance.