Professor Roger E. Backhouse (Professor of the History and Philosop

Founder of Modern Economics

Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948

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Produktbeschreibung

Founder of Modern Economics offers stimulating insight into a towering figure's influence on economics: a discipline and way of thinking that influences business, policy making, and everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in History of Economics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1092g
• ISBN-13: 9780190664091
• ISBN-10: 0190664096
• Artikelnr.: 47870522

Autorenporträt

Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics, University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Part I - The Early Years, 1915-35
1. Childhood
2. The University of Chicago, 1932
3. Natural and social sciences, 1932-3
4. Social scientist to mathematical economist, 1933-4
5: Economics at Chicago, 1932-5
PART II - The Harvard Years, 1935-40
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
PART III - MIT, War, Foundations and the Textbook, 1940-8
16. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17. Statistics
18. Developing the New Economics, I: Theory, 1940-3
19. Hansen and the National Resources Planning Board, 1941-3
20. Developing the New Economics, II: Policy, 1942-3
21. Scientists and Science Policy, 1944-5
22. Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1940-7
23. Postwar Economic Policy, 1944-7
24. Keynes and Keynesian economics
25. Drafting the textbook, 1945
26. Controversy over the textbook, 1947-8
27. Economics, the first edition, 1948
28. Commitment to MIT
29. Conclusions
List of Abbreviations
References
Endnote