The Boston Globe, June 16th, 1996
Economics in the last 12 months has lost two great men, "great" as measured by the familiar yardstick of the Nobel Prize. Each was in the prime of life; each surely would have received the award had he lived another dozen years. This might not even be news, perhaps, except that neither man was trained as an economist. Amos Tversky, a psychologist, died from metastatic melanoma earlier this month, just three months after receiving treatment that it had been hoped might put him on the road to remission. He was 59. Fischer Black, a mathematician, died last year at 57, after a lengthy battle with ...
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