Paul A. Samuelson was born in 1915 in Indiana. When he was a little boy, his parents moved to Chicago, therefore he went to school there. He also pursued his bachelor studies in mathematics at University of Chicago. Then, he went to Harvard and received his masters in 1936 and...
Friedrich August Von Hayek (pronounced HI-YACK) was born in Vienna in 1899 to an academic family. His grandfather was a companion of Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, one of the pioneers of the Austrian School of Economics. When Hayek was growing up, reading was one of his main hobbies. Then,...
“Franco Modigliani could have been a multiple Nobel winner. When he died he was the greatest living macroeconomist. He revised Keynesian economics from its Model-T, Neanderthal, Great Depression model to its modern-day form” – Paul Samuelson Franco Modigliani was born in Rome, Italy, in 1918. He spent his childhood...
Richard H. Thaler was born in New Jersey in 1945. He attended Case Western Reserve University and received his bachelor degree in economics in 1967. He continued his studies and got a masters in economics from University of Rochester. Thaler also received his PhD in 1974 in economics from the...
