WebGeorge Joseph Stigler (/ ˈ s t ɪ ɡ l ər /; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics .

WebFurther reading. Oral history interview with George H. Heilmeier, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.Heilmeier describes his introduction to the Department of Defense as a White House Fellow assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense working in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.Most of the interview is …

WebPest control is at least as old as agriculture, as there has always been a need to keep crops free from pests.As long ago as 3000 BC in Egypt, cats were used to control pests of grain stores such as rodents. Ferrets were domesticated by 1500 BC in Europe for use as mousers. Mongooses were introduced into homes to control rodents and snakes, …

WebGeorge Arthur Akerlof (New Haven, 17 giugno 1940) è un economista statunitense, professore di economia all'Università della California, Berkeley. Ha vinto il Premio Nobel per l'economia nel 2001 (insieme a Michael Spence e Joseph E. Stiglitz ).

WebRobert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip, which fueled the personal computer …

WebGeorge Stigler, The Theory of Economic Regulation (1971) Regulatory capture theory is a core focus of the branch of public choice referred to as the economics of regulation; economists in this specialty are critical of conceptualizations of governmental regulatory intervention as being motivated to protect public good.

WebThe design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation.The term is generally associated with experiments in which the design introduces conditions that directly affect the variation, but may also refer …

WebRobert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and one of the twelve Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the Department of …

WebThe Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is an international organization composed of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals and business leaders. The members see the MPS as an effort to interpret in modern terms the fundamental principles of economic society as expressed by classical Western economists, political scientists and philosophers.

WebKarl Sune Detlof Bergström (10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004) was a Swedish biochemist.In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson.He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine …