Robert Merton

Nobel prize winner Robert Merton wrote the book's forward.

Kent Smetters: Risk Less and Prosper Kent Smetters 2011

Nobel prize winner Robert Merton wrote the book's forward.

Kent Smetters: Risk Less and Prosper Kent Smetters 2011

Nobel prize winner Robert Merton wrote the book's forward.

Kent Smetters: Risk Less and Prosper Kent Smetters 2011

Nobel prize winner Robert Merton wrote the book's forward.

Kent Smetters: Risk Less and Prosper Kent Smetters 2011

Robert Merton wrote about the phenomenon of unintended consequences quite a bit, based on his analysis of the relationships between policy and social science knowledge, in Social Theory and Social Structure.

Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

Robert Merton made similar claims in his seminal essay on individual behavior and status/reward systems.

Has Harris Done It Again?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

We are all familiar with the system-threatening collapse of hedge fund LTCM in 1998, and with the prominent role of "Nobelists" Robert Merton and Myron Scholes in the entire affair.

Pablo Triana: The Nobel Crisis 2009

In the case of the hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, which failed in 1998, two of the partners, Myron Scholes and Robert Merton, won Nobel prizes for their work on derivative valuation models -- specifically, the Black/Scholes/Merton framework of mathematical finance.

"Options theory is kind of deep in some way. It was very elegant; it had the quality of physics." Ann Althouse 2009

After serving as a research assistant to psychoanalyst and experimental child psychologist René Spitz and working for David Riesman on his study of political apathy that became The Lonely Crowd (1950) and Faces in The Crowd (1952), Coser studied at Columbia University with Robert S. Lynd and Robert Merton and completed a Ph.D. in sociology in 1957.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

Robert Merton wrote about the phenomenon of unintended consequences quite a bit, based on his analysis of the relationships between policy and social science knowledge, in Social Theory and Social Structure.

Unintended consequences Daniel Little 2009