Re: Need to pick an economist - help!
Krugman is a good contemporary choice.
You could do Myron Scholes/Fischer Black/Robert Merton. They are responsible for the Options Pricing Model (used to price financial instruments, primarily options). Merton and Scholes won the 97 Nobel in Economics for this. However, they were also a part of Long Term Capital Management, a spectacular failure of a hedge fund. Very interesting story.
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