Samuelsonian Economics And The Twenty First Century

Author : Michael Szenberg,Lall Ramrattan,Aron A. Gottesman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191538353

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Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century by Michael Szenberg,Lall Ramrattan,Aron A. Gottesman Pdf

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. Samuelson, the first American economist to win the Nobel prize in 1970, was the foremost voice in economics in the latter half of the 20th century. He single-handedly transformed the discipline by creating a new way of presenting economics, making it possible for it to be cast all in mathematical terms. Samuelson developed broad frameworks, such as the neoclassical synthesis, a mixed economy, and the surrogate production function, which provided practitioners with a vision for research. Samuelson's contributions to economics are rich, complex, consequential, and relevant to the ordinary economics of life. The quality of Samuelson's output and methods leave no doubt that his contributions continue to be timely and relevant even in the 21st century. Ideal as a reference or an introduction to Samuelson's work, this is a must-have for students and academics alike.

Author : Distinguished Professor of Economics Lubin Business School Michael Szenberg,Michael Szenberg,Lall Ramrattan,Aron A. Gottesman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199298822

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Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century by Distinguished Professor of Economics Lubin Business School Michael Szenberg,Michael Szenberg,Lall Ramrattan,Aron A. Gottesman Pdf

"The underlying notion in this volume is to spotlight, critically assess, and illuminate Paul A. Samuelson's extraordinarily voluminous, diverse, and groundbreaking contributions that encompass the entire field of economics through the lens of most eminent scholars. All this in honor of his ninetieth birthday celebrated on May 15, 2005 in Fairmont Hotel in Boston in the company of hundreds of scholars and their spouses."--Pref.

Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190664114

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Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson by Roger E. Backhouse Pdf

Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work transformed the field of economics and helped give it the theoretical and mathematic rigor that increased its influence in business and policy making. In Founder of Modern Economics, Roger E. Backhouse explores the central importance of Samuelson's personality and social networks to understanding his intellectual development. This is the first of two volumes covering Samuelson's extended and productive life and career. This volume surveys Samuelson's early years growing up in the Midwest to his experiences at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, where leading scholars in economics and other disciplines stimulated and rewarded his curiosity. His thinking was influenced by the natural sciences and he understood that a critical, scientific approach increased insights into important social and economic questions. He realized that these questions could not be answered through rhetorical debate but required rigor. His "eureka" moment came, he said, when "a good fairy whispered to me that math was a skeleton key to solve age old problems in economics." Backhouse traces Samuelson's thinking from his early days to the publication of his groundbreaking book Foundations of Economic Analysis and Economics: An Introductory Analysis, which influenced generations of students. His work set the stage for economics to become a more cohesive and coherent discipline, based on mathematical techniques that provided surprising insights into many important topics, from business cycles to wage and unemployment rates, and from how competition influences trade to how tax rates affects tax collection. Founder of Modern Economics is a profound contribution to understanding how modern economics developed and the thinking of a revolutionary thinker.

Author : Michael Szenberg,Aron A. Gottesman,Lall Ramrattan
Publisher : Jorge Pinto Books Incorporated
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097426153X

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Paul A. Samuelson by Michael Szenberg,Aron A. Gottesman,Lall Ramrattan Pdf

"This book captures much of the spirit of Paul A. Samuelson. Those who know Samuelson, one of the great economists of the twentieth century, only through his writings may have already sensed his wit, his intellect, his brilliance. This book brings these into focus, through details of his personal history and a wealth of anecdotes from colleagues and students." - Joseph E. Stiglitz (Foreword) "Probably more than anyone else in the twentieth century, he transformed the way economists think and write." - Avinash Dixit "Samuelson set a standard in teaching and citizenship.that few if any will ever match." - Kenneth Rogoff "To know Paul Samuelson is to be engaged in a life-long intellectual conversation with the most important economist of our times." - Richard Zeckhauser About Paul Samuelson: Paul Anthony Samuelson is Institute Professor, Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in the American midwest in the first half of the twentieth century, he was a provocative student of Jacob Viner and was later wooed from Harvard to MIT. He developed original methodology and instigated controversies in his profession. Samuelson is the author of the best-selling economics textbook of all time, for which he never received an author's advance payment. He is legendary for his expansive, penetrating, undogmatic thinking and generosity of spirit-to students and colleagues alike. He has contributed to national economic policies and business trends and was the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics. Paul Samuelson: On Being an Economist is a concise profile of this original thinker whose forceful, profound, skeptical and expansive intellect drove one of the fundamental transformations of twentieth-century economic theory. About the Authors: Michael Szenberg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Economics and Chair, Finance and Economics Department, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, is editor-in-chief of The American Economist. His books include New Frontiers in Economics, coedited with Lall Ramrattan, with a Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Aron A. Gottesman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics Department, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, is coauthor of Insurance Logic, Second Edition (Captus Press, 2005). Lall Ramrattan, Ph.D. teaches Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Reflections of Eminent Economists, coedited with Michael Szenberg (Elgar Publishing Co., 2004).

Author : K. Puttaswamaiah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351324793

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Paul Samuelson and the Foundations of Modern Economics by K. Puttaswamaiah Pdf

Paul A. Samuelson was the first American Nobel Laureate in economics, and the second overall. He was credited for "the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science." That recognition is now thirty years old and Samuelson remains at work in the cutting edge of the discipline. He is also widely known for a basic textbook that became a landmark learning tool throughout the second half of the twentieth century. This excellent collegial appreciation focuses heavily on Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis. In that work, and a series of brief essays, he has contributed to an integration of statics and dynamics by way of the correspondence principle. He has also combined the multiplier and accelerator mechanisms in a model of economic fluctuations; he has reformed the foundations of consumption theory by his concept of revealed preferences; he has developed or improved several major theorems within international trade; and created theories of maximum efficiency and maximum growth rate. Finally, he has clarified the role of collective goods in resource allocation. In considering the work and life of Samuelson, editor Puttaswamaiah, has assembled a worthy group of brilliant commentators. Among the analytic papers in this volume are "An essay on the Accuracy of Economic Prediction" by L.R. Klein, "Analytical Aspects of Anti-Inflation Policy" by Robert M. Solow, a paper by Vittorangelo Orati on Samuelson's linkage to Schumpeter and Keynes, "Money and Price Theory by Carlo Benetti and Jean Cartelier, and a concluding essay on "The Role of Samuelson's Economics" by Michael Emmett Brady. Most unusual in works of this kind are some strong critical statements, including a pungent examination of vanity as well as creativity in Samuelson's work. What emerges is a clear picture of a special scholar. Scholars and students will welcome it alike-a result that well fits the purpose and character of Samuelson. The festschrift has its origins in several issues of the International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics. Professor K. Puttaswamaiah has more than three decades of editing journals in economics. He is a member of the journal; Savings and Development issued at the University of Milan. He is author of Economic Development of Karnataka, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Nobel Economists: Lives and Contributions.

Author : Robert A. Cord,Richard G. Anderson,William A. Barnett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137568120

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Paul Samuelson by Robert A. Cord,Richard G. Anderson,William A. Barnett Pdf

A significant part of economics as we know it today is the outcome of battles that took place in the post-war years between Keynesians and monetarists. In the US, the focus of these battles was often between the neo-Keynesians at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Chicago monetarists. The undisputed leader of the MIT Keynesians was Paul A. Samuelson, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and arguably of all time. Samuelson’s output covered a vast number of subjects within economics, the quality of theseoften pioneering contributions unmatched in the modern era. The volume focuses both on how Samuelson’s work has been developed by others and on how that work fits into subsequent developments in the various fields of speciality within which Samuelson operated.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson,William Samuelson
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4149694

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Economics by Paul Anthony Samuelson,William Samuelson Pdf

Contains chapter overview and outline, learning objectives, key concept review, helpful hints, multiple choice questions and problem solving questions

Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9780887845345

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Twenty-first Century Capitalism by Robert L. Heilbroner Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book What forms will capitalism take in the twenty-first century? To answer this question, noted economist and social philosopher Robert Heilbroner looks beyond economic theory to the social and political problems of modern economic society. In this sweeping examination of the past, present, and possible future, Heilbroner considers capitalism both as an economic system and a political order. He argues persuasively that, even in an increasingly globalized economy, government remains crucial to a healthy private sector, due to the limited ability of markets to order themselves, let alone make contributions to teh common good such as tackling environmental probelms or providing sufficient educational programs. Heilbroner concludes this penetrating technique by speculating on whether some more participatory forms of capitalism might emerge this century.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107029934

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Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

This collection of writings by Paul Samuelson illustrates the depth and breadth of his contribution to the history of economics.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076001507131

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Readings in Economics by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1966-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262190222

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The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale of his work should be so much taken for granted, observes a reviewer in the Economist who goes on to note that a cynic might add that it would have been better for Professor Samuelson to write less merely to give others a chance to write at all.These volumes contain virtually all of Professor Paul A. Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964 - a total of 129 papers. Included are his classic articles on such topics as revealed preference, factor-price equalization, and public goods; as well as some articles which until now have only been privately circulated or "buried" in Festschriften, such as "Market Mechanisms and Maximization" and "The Structure of a Minimum Equilibrium System." The articles have been grouped together into five books, compiled in two volumes. The books, in turn have been divided into sections, each of which contains articles on the same or closely related topics. Within the sections the articles are arranged chronologically. The graduate student and professional economist will welcome The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson as a valuable addition to their libraries.

Author : G. Feiwel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400973770

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Samuelson and Neoclassical Economics by G. Feiwel Pdf

This is not a festschrift, but a study of the prodigious Samuelson phe nomenon, his history-making contributions to and impact on the econom ics of our age, and the intricate, often perplexing, and divergent trends in modern economics - all intensely controversial subjects that will be argued, scrutinized, and periodically reassessed by economists of various strands and traditions for years to come, for, as Samuelson wrote of Pigou, "immortality does have its price. " A scholar with such an out standing body of contributions "must expect other men to swarm about it" (1966, p. 1233), subject it to scholarly scrutiny, and challenge it. Although Paul Samuelson was 65 on May 15, 1980 (and our best wishes go out to him for long life and continued enrichment of economics), this is neither a birthday party nor a gathering of only the Good Fairies, for, as he himself has said of Marx, "a great scholar deserves the compliment of being judged seriously" and critically (1972, p. 268). In accordance with the rule of Roman law, audiatur et altera pars, I have invited representative scholars of widely divergent perceptions to offer their critical evaluation of the "age of Samuelson. " While the response was by and large gratifying, some scholars were unable to meet the deadline, ix x PREFACE and with much compunction I have had to expand my own essays to partly fill the gaps.

Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015000562234

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The Samuelson Sampler by Paul Anthony Samuelson Pdf

Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691252025

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The Ordinary Business of Life by Roger E. Backhouse Pdf

The classic history of economic thought through the ages—now fully updated and expanded Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by economists today. Diocletian tried to save the Roman Empire with wage and price fixes—a strategy that has not gone entirely out of style. Roger Backhouse takes readers from the ancient world to the frontiers of game theory, mechanism design, and engagements with climate science, presenting an essential history of a discipline that economist Alfred Marshall called “the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” Backhouse introduces the many fascinating figures who have thought about money and markets down through the centuries—from philosophers and theologians to politicians and poets—and shows how today’s economic ideas have their origins in antiquity. This updated edition of The Ordinary Business of Life includes a new chapter on contemporary economics and the rest of the book has been thoroughly revised.

Author : Robert Henry Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0271020962

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Economics as Religion by Robert Henry Nelson Pdf