A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Chambers, Dustin - Instructor, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside. Site includes contact information, CV, and working papers.
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Econometrics Hall of Fame - A photo gallery inviting nominations of people who fit the two requirements: dead, and an important contributor to the field.
Hirano, Keisuke - Econometrician at the University of Miami provides research papers and course notes.
MacKinnon, James - Professor at Queen's provides list of publications with full-text links.
Pagan, Adrian - Professor at the Australian National University provides vita and current research papers.
Teyssiere, Gilles - Specializes in computational statistics, time series, long-term memory processes, and financial bubbles. Page includes publications and related research institutions.
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Wdowinski, Piotr - Assistant professor at the Institute of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Lodz. Page includes research interests and publications (in Polish).
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