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Founder of modern economics : Paul A. Samuelson / Roger E. Backhouse.
Lippincott Library HB119.S25 B33 2017
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Backhouse, Roger, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in the history of economics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Samuelson, Paul A. (Paul Anthony), 1915-2009.
- Samuelson, Paul A.
- Economists--United States--Biography.
- Economists.
- United States.
- Economics--United States.
- Economics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- volumes ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Paul A. Samuelson
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]-
- Contents:
- Part I The Early Years, 1915-1935
- 1 Childhood 3
- 2 The University of Chicago, 1932 22
- 3 Natural and Social Sciences, T932-1933 36
- 4 Social Scientist to Mathematical Economist, 1933-1934 59
- 5 Economics at Chicago, 1932-1935 78
- Part II The Harvard Years, 1935-1940
- 6 First Term at Harvard, Autumn 1935 103
- 7 Joseph Alois Schumpeter 132
- 8 Edwin Bidwell Wilson 149
- 9 Making Connections 164
- 10 Simplifying Economic Theory 193
- 11 Collaboration 218
- 12 Alvin Harvey Hansen 234
- 13 Hansen's Disciple 255
- 14 The Observational Significance of Economic Theory 273
- 15 Leaving Harvard 294
- Part III MIT, War, Foundations, and the Textbook, 1940-1948
- 16 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 317
- 17 Statistics 340
- 18 Developing the New Economics, I: Theory, 1940-1941 354
- 19 Hansen and the National Resources Planning Board, 1941-1943 382
- 20 Developing the New Economics, II: Policy, 1942-1943 414
- 21 Scientists and Science Policy, 1944-1945 432
- 22 Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1940-1947 452
- 23 Postwar Economic Policy, 1944-1947 479
- 24 Keynes and Keynesian Economics 516
- 25 Drafting the Textbook, 1945 532
- 26 Controversy over the Textbook, 1947-1948 557
- 27 Economics, the First Edition, 1948 576
- 28 Commitment to MIT 597
- 29 The Young Samuelson 614.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Volume 1. Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Becoming Samuelson, 1915-48.
- ISBN:
- 9780190664091
- 0190664096
- OCLC:
- 961423282
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