Samuelsonian economics and the twenty-first century / edited by Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, Aron A. Gottesman ; foreword by Kenneth J. Arrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szenberg, Michael.

Ramrattan, Lall, 1951-

Gottesman, Aron A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Samuelson, Paul A. (Paul Anthony), 1915-2009.

Samuelson, Paul A.

Physical Description:

xxx, 350 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This volume illuminates and critically assesses Paul A. Samuelson's voluminous and groundbreaking contributions to the field of economics. The volume includes contributions from eminent scholars, including 6 Nobel Laureates, covering the extraordinary depth and breadth of Samuelson's contributions. Ideal as a reference, this is a must-have for students and academics alike.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Contributors

Ten Ways to Know Paul A. Samuelson

Introduction

PART I. Analysis of Samuelson's Specific Contributions

Overlapping Generation Models

1. Overlapping Generations

2. Paul Samuelson's Amazing Intergenerational Transfer

3. Social Security, the Government Budget, and National Savings

Expectation, Uncertainty and Public Goods

4. Prospective Shifts, Speculative Swings: "Macro" for the Twenty-First Century in the Tradition Championed by Paul Samuelson

5. Paul Samuelson and Global Public Goods

Preference and Consumer Behavior

6. Revealed Preference

7. Samuelson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Jekyll" Problem: A Difficulty in the Concept of the Consumer

Marx

8. Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx: Were the Sacrificed Games of Tennis Worth It?

Stability

9. Paul Samuelson and the Stability of General Equilibrium

Keynes &amp

Post Keynesians

10. Paul Samuelson and Piero Sraffa-Two Prodigious Minds at the Opposite Poles

11. Paul Samuelson as a "Keynesian" Economist

12. Samuelson and the Keynes/Post Keynesian Revolution

International Economics and Finance

13. Paul Samuelson and International Trade Theory Over Eight Decades

14. Paul Samuelson's Contributions to International Economics

15. Protection and Real Wages: The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem

Finance and Portfolio Theory

16. Samuelson and the Factor Bias of Technological Change: Toward a Unified Theory of Growth and Unemployment

17. Samuelson and Investment for the Long Run

18. Paul Samuelson and Financial Economics

PART II. Samuelson's Relevance

Relevance to Mathematical Economics

19. Multipliers and the LeChatelier Principle

Relevance to the Natural Sciences

20. The Surprising Ubiquity of the Samuelson Configuration: Paul Samuelson and the Natural Sciences.

21. Paul Samuelson's Mach

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191538353

0191538353

OCLC:

140141804