About the Book
More than any other economist, Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-) raised the level of mathematical analysis in the profession. He wrote his first published article, 'A Note on the Measurement of Utility', as a twenty-one-year-old doctoral student at Harvard. His doctoral dissertation, Foundations of Economic Analysis , published in 1947, became a milestone in the conversion of modern economists to the view that all economic behaviour can be fruitfully studied as the solution to a maximisation problem, explicitly or implicitly employing the mathematics of differential and integral calculus. It also won him Harvard's David A. Wells Award. He was made full professor at MIT just six years after completing his PhD, where he remained until he retirement in 1986. He won numerous prizes and honours in his lifetime including the Nobel prize for Economics, he regularly contributed to News Week and he acted as economic advisor to President Kennedy.
Very much 'the economists' economist', Samuelson published rigorous statements of fundamental concepts and theories in just about every branch of economics, including international trade, consumer theory and welfare economics, production theory, financial analysis, growth theory, macroeconomics, and the history of economic thought. Samuelson is a key figure in economic thinking and there are few graduate students of economics who have not read and re-read his classical essays. This collection gathers the essential assessments of this important economist, and provides an unparalleled insight into his lasting impact on economics throughout the last century to the present day.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1 1. Campbell, Donald E., Truchon, Michel., Boundary Optima and the Theory of Public Goods Supply, Journal of Public Economics. Amsterdam: Mar 1988. Vol. 35, Iss. 2; pp. 241-249. 2. Feehan, James P., Efficient Tariff Financing of Public Goods, Journal of International Economics. Amsterdam: Aug 1988. Vol. 25, Iss. 1,2; pp. 155-164. 3. Nusse, H. E., Hommes, C. H., Resolution of Chaos with Application to a Modified Samuelson Model, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control. Amsterdam: Feb 1990. Vol. 14, Iss. 1; pp. 1-19. 4. Batina, Raymond G., Public Goods and Dynamic Efficiency - The Modified Samuelson Rule, Journal of Public Economics. Amsterdam: Apr 1990. Vol. 41, Iss. 3; pp. 389-400. 5. Lyon, Andrew B., Invariant Valuation When Tax Rates Change over Time, The Journal of Political Economy. Chicago: Apr 1990. Vol. 98, Iss. 2; pp. 433 -437. 6. Aliprantis, Charalambos D., Brown, Donald J., Burkinshaw, Owen., Valuation and Optimality in the Overlapping Generations Model, International Economic Review. Philadelphia: May 1990. Vol. 31, Iss. 2; pp. 275-288 7. Batina, Raymond G., On the Interpretation of the Modified Samuelson Rule for Public Goods in Static Models with Heterogeneity, Journal of Public Economics. Amsterdam: Jun 1990. Vol. 42, Iss. 1; pp. 125-133. 8. Champ, Bruce, Freeman, Scott., Money, Output, and the Nominal National Debt, The American Economic Review. Nashville: Jun 1990. Vol. 80, Iss. 3; pp. 390-397 9. Saijo, Tatsuyoshi., Boundary Optima and the Theory of Public Goods Supply: A Comment, Journal of Public Economics. Amsterdam: Jul 1990. Vol. 42, Iss. 2; pp. 213-217 10. Markusen, J. R., Schweinberger, A. G., The Positive Theory of Production Externalities Under Perfect Competition, Journal of International Economics. Amsterdam: Aug 1990. Vol. 29, Iss. 1,2; pp. 69-91 11. Wilson, John Douglas., Trade and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being in an Economy with Local Public Goods, Journal of International Economics. Amsterdam: Nov 1990. Vol. 29, Iss. 3,4; pp. 199-215. 12. Bergstrand, Jeffrey H., The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Model, the Linder Hypothesis and the Determinants of Bilateral Intra-Industry Trade, The Economic Journal. London: Dec 1990. Vol. 100, Iss. 403; pp. 1216-1229 13. Okuguchi, Koji., Irie, Kazuya., The Schur and Samuelson conditions for a cubic equation, The Manchester School. Manchester: Dec 1990. Vol. 58, Iss. 4; pp. 414-418 14. Bandyopadhyay, Taradas, Sengupta, Kunal., Revealed Preference Axioms for Rational Choice, The Economic Journal. London: Mar 1991. Vol. 101, Iss. 405; pp. 202-213 15. Davidson, Carl, Martin, Lawrence, Matusz, Steven., Multiple Free Trade Equilibria in Micro Models of Unemployment, Journal of International Economics.
