Curated playlist
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Alvin HansenEconomist Alvin Hansen doubted Keynes at first, then embraced him. By December 1938 he was a full convert.
- Edward ThorndikeEdward Thorndike timed hungry cats escaping from puzzle boxes. It led to his law of effect.
- Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman argued the Federal Reserve let the money supply shrink by one-third between 1929 and 1933.
- James TobinJames Tobin proposed a tax on currency trading to throw sand in the wheels of speculation.
- Alan GreenspanIn October 2008, Alan Greenspan told Congress his faith in free markets had a flaw.
- Oskar MorgensternOskar Morgenstern was born on the 24th of January 1902 in Görlitz, a town in the Prussian Province of Silesia. According to a rumor, his mother was a daughter of Emperor Frederick III. Whatever the truth of that story, the child grew up…
- Gary BeckerEconomist Gary Becker argued that criminals are not irrational. He said they weigh the risks and rewards of a crime.
- James HeckmanAre people who join a program different from those who don't? James Heckman won a Nobel Prize for fixing that problem.
- I. J. GoodAlan Turing once stopped speaking to a codebreaker for napping on the floor.
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl gave computers a way to reason when facts are incomplete.