Paul Samuelson: Master of Modern Economics

ISBN-13: 9781137568113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 594 str.

Robert A. Cord; Richard G. Anderson; William A. Barnett

Spis treści

      1. Introduction- Richard G. Anderson.- 

Part I. Samuelson’s Contribution to Economics: Methodology and Mathematics

 

2. Paul Samuelson’s Ideology and Scientific Economics- J. Daniel Hammond

3. Re-Examining Samuelson’s Operationalist Methodology- D. Wade Hands

4. The Young Paul Samuelson: Mathematics as a Language, the Operational Attitude, and Systems in Equilibrium- Juan Carvajalino

5. Paul Samuelson and My Intellectual Development- Gregory C. Chow

6. Some Correspondence with Paul Samuelson on Economic Theory: An Intimate Memoir- Donald A. Walker

7. Some Correspondence with Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Thought: An Intimate Memoir- Donald A. Walker

8. The Samuelson Revolution in Australia- Alex Millmow

 

Part II. Samuelson’s Contribution to Economics: Microeconomics and Finance

 

9. Samuelson’s Approach to Revealed Preference Theory: Some Recent Advances- Thomas Demuynck and Per Hjertstrand

10. Paul Samuelson and the Economics of Pass-Through and the Envelope Theorem-  Joseph Farrell

11. Not a Behaviorist: Samuelson’s Contributions to Utility Theory in the Harvard Years, 1936-1940- Ivan Moscati

12. A Short History of the Bergson-Samuelson Social Welfare Function- Herrade Igersheim

13. Climbing Mount Everest: Paul Samuelson on Financial Theory and Practice- Jeremy J. Siegel

14. Paul Samuelson: Three Key Contributions to Finance- Ronald MacDonald

 

Part III. Samuelson’s Contribution to Economics: Macroeconomics, International Trade and Development

 

15. Paul Samuelson and Macroeconomics- K. Vela Vellupillai

16. Keynesian Uncertainty: The Great Divide between Joan Robinson and Paul Samuelson in their Correspondence and Public Exchanges- Harvey Gram with the collaboration of G.C. Harcourt

17. Paul Samuelson, Government, and Monetary Policy: Some Evidence from the Archives- Robert A. Cord

18. Paul A. Samuelson and the Foundation of International Economics- Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg

19. Samuelson’s Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics- Ronald Lee

20. Paul Samuelson’s Contributions to Public Economics- Michael J. Boskin

21. Samuelson on Ricardo and on Technical Change- Arnold Heertje

22. Divergence and Convergence: Paul Samuelson on Economic Development- Mauro Boianovsky

O autorze

Robert A. Cord holds a PhD from Cambridge University, UK. His areas of interest include the history of economic thought and, within this, the history of macroeconomics. His publications include Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution (2012), (as co-editor) Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy (2016), The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics and The Palgrave Companion to LSE Economics.

Richard G. Anderson joined the Centre for Economics and the Environment at Lindenwood University as a research fellow in the Summer of 2013 and also teaches economics courses in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Lindenwood, he was a vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

​William A. Barnett is Director of the Advances in Monetary and Financial Measurement Program at the Center for Financial Stability. The program provides national and international databases of monetary and financial data that are rigorously founded in economic aggregation and index-number theory. Data includes monthly releases and relevant analysis of US money supply.