Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 1st Edition Backhouse 0190664118 9780190664114

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• ISBN 10: 0190664118
• ISBN 13: 9780190664114
• Author: Backhouse

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.

Table of contents:

1 Childhood

2 The University of Chicago, 1932

3 Natural and Social Sciences, 1932–1933

4 Social Scientist to Mathematical Economist, 1933–1934

5 Economics at Chicago, 1932–1935

Part II The Harvard Years, 1935–1940

6 First Term at Harvard, Autumn 1935

7 Joseph Alois Schumpeter

8 Edwin Bidwell Wilson

9 Making Connections

10 Simplifying Economic Theory

11 Collaboration

12 Alvin Harvey Hansen

13 Hansen’s Disciple

14 The Observational Significance of Economic Theory

15 Leaving Harvard

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