John McMillan (1951-2007)
19 March 2007 at 1:09 pm Peter Klein 1 comment
| Peter Klein |
For several years I used John McMillan’s book Games, Strategies, and Managers as a supplemental text in my managerial economics courses. I was saddened to learn that McMillan died last Tuesday at the age of 56 after losing a battle with cancer. Here is an obituary. McMillan taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, edited the Journal of Economic Literature, and wrote many articles and books, including Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets.
David Warsh says “Give him a couple of paragraphs — on the evolution of folk football into rugby, soccer, and American football; or the various ways to rig an auction; or the reasons China and Vietnam grew so successfully out of their planned economies while Russia did not — and he could make economics jump right off the page and into the mind of his reader.”
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Donald A. Coffin | 20 March 2007 at 11:12 am
“Reinventing the Bazaar” was a brilliant and beautiful book.