Search Results for samuelson

...Theodore M. Porter Founder of Modern Economics: Paul Samuelson. Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915–1948 . By Backhouse Roger E. . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xxii; 736 pp. $34.95 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

... to recent debates about the methodological foundations of rational choice theory among experimental psychologists, behavioral economists, neuroeconomists, and others. The second purpose of this article is to use material from the Paul Samuelson archives to help us understand how Samuelson, the originator...

...Marek Hudík This article shows that the possibility of formally incorporating reference-dependence into the theory of consumer behavior was explored well before Kahneman and Tversky in the early 1990s; specifically, in separate papers by Alt, Samuelson, and Bernardelli in the late 1930s...

...Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay This paper provides a narrative of the emergence of the standard textbook definition of public goods. It focuses on Richard A. Musgrave's contribution in defining public goods as nonrival and nonexcludable—from 1937 to 1973. Although Samuelson's mathematical definition...

...Yann Giraud Previous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson’s political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics . By contrast, this article depicts the making of Economics itself as a political process. It argues...

...Harro Maas This article examines how Samuelson defined his own role as an economist as a technical expert, who walked what he called the “middle of the road” to—seemingly—stay out of the realm of politics. As point of entry I discuss the highly tempting offers made by Theodore M. Schultz...

...J. Daniel Hammond This article is an analytical history of Paul Samuelson's writings on the theory of public goods and the role of government. We examine Samuelson's scholarly work from “The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure” (1954) to “Pure Theory of Public Expenditure and Taxation” (1969). We...

... December 1970. After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith? Kenneth E. Boulding 1 MUST apologize to my friend, Paul Samuelson, for using his name as a symbol. To have one's name beciome a symbol, however, is even greater fame than the Nobel Prize...

... in honor of Ludwig von Mises. Edited by Israel M. Kirzner. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1982. Pp. vii, 262. $27.95. Samuelson and neoclassical economics. Edited by George R. Feiwel, Boston: Kluwer Nijhoff, 1982. Pp. xii, 358. $35. The objectives of Dr. Kirzner were clear when he...

... 0 1987 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/87/$1 .SO Edgeworth, Samuelson, and operationally meaningful theorems Bruce Larson I. Introduction Paul Samuelson has described an operationally meaningful theorem...

...Mauro Boianovsky In the late 1970s Paul Samuelson drafted the outline of a paper, never published, with a critical assessment of the theoretical innovations of postwar development economics. He found it a “vital” but essentially “not tractable” subject, with a “voluminous” and “repetitive...

... © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 What Was Abandoned Following the Cambridge Capital Controversies? Samuelson, Substance, Scarcity, and Value Avi J. Cohen [T]he true nature o f Samuelson’s [surrogate production function] project. . . was to reconcile classical...

...Neri Salvadori; Rodolfo Signorino Abstract Sraffa's “On the Relations between Cost and Quantity Produced” (1925) and Samuelson's “An Exact Hume-Ricardo-Marshall Model of International Trade” (1971) presented a strikingly similar analytical argument regarding the theoretical domain of Marshallian...

...Roger E. Backhouse; Jennifer Burns [email protected] ; [email protected] [email protected] Samuelson Friedman: The Battle over the Free Market . By Nicholas Wapshott . New York : W. W. Norton , 2021 . 384 pp. $28.95 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University...

.... Benham , Frederic , and Boddy. Francis 1947 . Principles of Economics . New York: Pitman. Blaug , Mark 1991 . Second Thoughts on the Keynesian Revolution. HOPE 23 . 2 : 171 -81. Boland , Lawrence A. 1989 . The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology after Samuelson...

... Groenewegen,Donald Mog- gridge,Robert Skidelsky,Rita McWilliams Tullberg,John Whitaker,et alher book is a welcome addition to that literary store. A. W. Bob Coats,University of Nottingham Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond. By Robert H...

... . London: Macmillan. ____. 1996 . “An Essay in Dynamic Theory”:1938 Draft. Edited by D. Besomi. HOPE 28.2 : 253 -80. Heertje, A., and P. Heemeijer. 2002 . On the Origin of Samuelson's Multiplier-Accelerator Model. HOPE 34.1 : 207 -18. Hicks, J. R. 1949 . Mr. Harrod's Dynamic Theory...

... and Consumer-Taking: A Rejoinder. Journal of Political Economy 40 : 253 -55. ____. 1933 . Propagation Problems and Impulse Problems in Dynamic Economics. Economic Essays in Honor of Gustav Cassel . London: George Allen and Unwin. Heertje, A., and P. Heemeijer. 2002 . On the Origin of Samuelson's...

...E. Roy Weintraub In this review essay of Steven G. Medema and Anthony M. C. Waterman's collection of some of Paul Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written “Whig history” is spurious. Moreover, the author argues that Samuelson's own...

...Roger E. Backhouse The article reconstructs the events surrounding Paul Samuelson’s departure from Harvard to MIT in October 1940, a crucial event in the rise to prominence of MIT’s economics department. The contrasting attitudes of Harvard and MIT to Jewish economists were just one of many factors...