Questions to consider:
- Is the person dead or alive? Think: obituaries.
- What years did they live? Life-time could indicate the age of
material you should look for.
- What did they do? What do they do now? Inventions, discoveries,
prizes, honors all count for something, especially news
coverage.
- Where did they work? University archives will often have the
papers and personal files of their faculty.
- Could they be associated with any particular time
period (like "the 60s") or movement (like "civil
rights") or person/group (think Greenspan and Federal
Reserve)? Prominent people may be featured in a book about
something larger than themselves.
Reference Materials
Held in RR1:
Rutherford, Donald The Biographical Dictionary of British
Economists Thoemnes: Bristol, 2004.
Call number: HB76.B52 2004
Arestis, Philip and Malcolm Sawyer, ed. A Biographical
Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. Edward Elgar Publishing:
UK, 1992.
Call number: HB76.B50 1992.
Blaug, Mark. Great Economists before Keynes: an introduction to
the lives and works of 100 great economists of the past.
Humanities Press International: Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1986.
Call number: HB76.B540 1986
Blaug, Mark. Great Economists since Keynes: an introduction to
the lives and works of one hundred modern economists, 2nd ed.
Edward Elgar Paublishing: UK, 1998.
Call number: HB76.B55 1998
Breit, William and Roger W. Spencer, ed. Lives of the
Laureates: Eighteen Nobel Economists. MIT Press: Cambridge,
MA, 2004.
Call number: HB76.L580 2004
Katz, Bernard S., ed. Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences: a
biographical dictionary. Garland Publishing: New York,
1989.
Call number: HB76. N630 1989
Mai, Ludwig H. Men and Ideas in Economics; A Dictionary of
World Economists Past and Present. Rowman and Litttlefield:
Totowa, NJ, 1975.
Call number:HB76. M22 C.2
Blaug, Mark, ed. Who's Who in Economics, 4th ed. Edward
Elgar: Northampton, MA, 2003.
Call number: HB76.W47 2003
Other Reference Material
in RR1:
Current Biography: CT100.C94
Who's Who in America (brief info): E176.W62
Who's Who in the World (brief): CT120.W62
Concise Dictionary of American Biography:E176.D571
1997
St. James Guide to Biography: Z5301.S34 1991
American National Biography: E176.D58 1999
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Databases:
American National Biography
Covers deceased people only. Excellent cross-references.
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes biographies in a wide range of sources. Does not contain
full text. Find sources cited in the Library Catalog
Biography Index
(1984-) Includes individual and collective biographies from all
fields and nationalities. You can search by industry ( i.e.
"economist"). Some full-text.
Dictionary of
National Biography
Covers deceased people of Britain.
Articles often provide information. We suggest looking in Factiva and ABI/Inform.
Books at
Regenstein
Fame often accounts for alot in terms of
biography. In the library
catalog, try a subject alphabetical browse on the name
of the person or enter the phrase "economists -- biography". You
will notice similar call numbers, so be sure to browse the
shelves.
Bibliographies of
Economists at the University of Chicago
This listing gives bibliographic citations for current faculty
members, as well as links to their University homepages.
Department
of Economics
Graduate
School of Business
Web Sources
Official site for the Nobel
Foundation. Biographical info about all winners in the economic
sciences.
Professional
Organizations
American Economic
Association
Econometric
Society
Foundation for Economic
Education
Hudson Institute
National Association of Business
Economists
National Council of
Economic Education
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