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Autobiography

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  • Merton, Robert C.

    (Harvard University)

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I was born in New York, New York, on July 31, 1944, the middle child between two sisters, Stephanie and Vanessa. I grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, a village of about 8000 outside the city, in a house that Vanessa and her family live in today. My father, born in Philadelphia the son of immigrant parents, was a professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is now University Professor Emeritus at Columbia, having meanwhile been awarded the National Medal of Science for founding the sociology of science and for his contributions to sociological knowledge such as the self-fulfilling prophecy and the focus group. My mother, from a multigenerational southern New Jersey Methodist/Quaker family, stayed at home. She died in 1992. My mother's mother and many (at one time 25) cats completed the household that shared my childhood.

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  • Merton, Robert C., 1998. "Autobiography," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 1997-3, Nobel Prize Committee.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:nobelp:1997_003
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    Option pricing;

    JEL classification:

    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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