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Robert K. Merton's Books
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BusinessWeek, October 3, 2011
...Swan makes a statement about the unique perspective of a practitioner. The book mentions Harvard University professor emeritus Robert Merton and Stanford University professor emeritus Myron Scholes, who together won a Nobel prize in 1997 for a formula...
CHINAdaily, July 29, 2011
...is creating a brave new world. The work of Nobel laureates such as Merton Miller, Myron Scholes and Robert Merton lays the foundations not just for a financial environment driven by myths - chief among them the notion of the efficient market - but for a...
Edmonton Journal, July 19, 2011
...the NBA championship twice in a row, which they did in 1987 and 1988. It's what sociologist Robert Merton called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Believing in a positive outcome will enhance the probability that it will happen. Simply believing is also...
Regina Leader-Post, July 18, 2011
...the NBA championship twice in a row, which they did in 1987 and 1988. It's what sociologist Robert Merton called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Believing in a positive outcome will enhance the probability that it will happen. Simply believing is also...
Edmonton Journal, July 17, 2011
...the NBA championship twice in a row, which they did in 1987 and 1988. It's what sociologist Robert Merton called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Believing in a positive outcome will enhance the probability that it will happen. Simply believing is also...
Irish Times, May 26, 2011
...author Mark Twain in the silver fever of 1863, not to mention the Nobel laureates Myron Scholes and Robert Merton following the collapse of their ill-fated hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management, in 1998. Even some of the most adulated business...
Foreign Policy Magazine, January 23, 2012
...social sciences for much of the twentieth century. I am thinking here of scholars such as Dwight Waldo, Robert K. Merton, Aaron Wildavsky, Charles Perrow, James Q. Wilson, Charles Lindblom, James March, Herbert Simon, or Anthony Downs; all of whom cast...
Foreign Policy Magazine, January 23, 2012
...social sciences for much of the twentieth century. I am thinking here of scholars such as Dwight Waldo, Robert K. Merton, Aaron Wildavsky, Charles Perrow, James Q. Wilson, Charles Lindblom, James March, Herbert Simon, or Anthony Downs; all of whom cast...
Underbelly, July 3, 2011
...important. Two, it's intriguing to see why Black/Scholes left the math heavy lifting to their competitor/colleague Robert Merton: the simple fact is that they just weren't that good at the math. It was left to Merton to connect the dots (just as it...
