Foundations of Economic Analysis
In: The Economic Journal, Band 60, Heft 238, S. 351
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In: The Economic Journal, Band 60, Heft 238, S. 351
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In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft
In: Special issue 1977
In: Economic theory and mathematical economics
In: Revue économique, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 334
ISSN: 1950-6694
In: Historical perspectives on modern economics
As one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century, Paul Anthony Samuelson revolutionized many branches of economic theory. As a diligent student of his predecessors, he reconstructed their economic analyses in the mathematical idiom he pioneered. Out of Samuelson's more than eighty articles, essays, and memoirs, the editors of this collection have selected seventeen. Twelve are mathematical reconstructions of some of the most famous work in the history of economic thought - work by David Hume, François Quesnay, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and others. One is a methodological essay defending the Whig history that he was sometimes accused of promulgating; two deal with the achievements of Joseph Schumpeter and Denis Robertson; and two review theoretical developments of his own time: Keynesian economics and monopolistic competition. The collection provides readers with a sense of the depth and breadth of Samuelson's contributions to the study of the history of economics