Robert C. Merton

Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, 1997 Nobel laureate in Economics with Myron Scholes, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the.

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 * My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.
 * Robert C. Merton, "Robert C. Merton - Biographical," at Nobelprize.org, 1997