News About Panmure House

Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, has announced that there is now a total of 17 Nobel Laureates in Economic Science who have lent their support to the Panmure House campaign.

Their enthusiasm for this great project is a vivid demonstration of the value of Adam Smith’s insights

across the world. These Laureates are:

• Prof Dale T Mortensen, Northwestern University

• Prof Christopher A Pissarides, London School of Economics

• Prof Oliver E Williamson, California – Berkeley

• Prof Eric S Maskin, Harvard University

• Prof Edmund S Phelps, Columbia University

• Prof Finn E Kydland, University of California – Santa Barbara

• Prof Edward C Prescott, Arizona State University

• Prof Vernon L Smith, Chapman University

• Prof Amartya Sen, Harvard University

• Prof Sir James A Mirrlees, University of Cambridge

• Prof Robert M Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Prof Robert C Merton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Prof Myron S Scholes, Stanford Graduate School ofBusiness

• Prof Robert E Lucas Jr, University of Chicago

• Prof A Michael Spence, New York University

• Prof Roger B Myerson, University of Chicago

• Prof Gary S Becker, University ofChicago

Comment

I am pleased that the restoration of Panmure House in Edinburgh, Adam Smith’s home from 1778-1790,  which he shared with his Mother, Margaret Douglas Smith and his cousin, Janet Douglas, is making progress, at last.