Founder of Modern Economics : Volume II: Being Samuelson, 1948-2009.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Backhouse, Roger E.

Series:

Oxford Studies in the History of Economics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (769 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Volume I of this intellectual biography told the story of someone who established himself as the most promising economist of his generation. This volume shows how he went on to dominate the subject. He was well known as a mathematical economist at a time when the use of mathematics in economics was in its infancy but, as this volume shows, he was far more than that.

Contents:

Cover

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I New Horizons, 1948-60

1 MIT and Japan

2 Inflation and Stabilization Policy, 1948-60

3 RAND and Activity Analysis

4 Economic Theory, The 1950s

5 Public Economics, The 1950s

6 Economics, 1951-59

7 Science, Natural, and Social

Part II The Kennedy-Johnson Years, 1960-68

8 Advising John F. Kennedy, 1960-63

9 Johnson and Newsweek, 1963-68

10 Economic Theory, The 1960s

11 The Two Cambridges

12 Marxism and the History of Economic Thought

13 Sunday Painting

Part III Nobel Prize Winner, 1968-80

14 Recognition

15 Monetarism and Economic Crises of the 1970s

16 Government and the Law

17 Economic Theory, 1968-80

18 Mathematical Biology

Part IV "Retirement," 1980-2009

19 Political Economy After 1980

20 Mathematical Theory After 1980

21 Reflections on Economists

22 Creating Modern Economics

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-781283-X

0-19-781284-8

0-19-781285-6

9780197812839

OCLC:

1586549653