Tribute to Paul. A. Samuelson

Vipin Chandran, K.P and Sandhya, P (2010): Tribute to Paul. A. Samuelson.

Abstract

Paul .A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in Economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century. As a graduate student at Harvard, Samuelson studied Economics under Joseph Schumpeter, W.W. Leontief, Goldfried Haberler and the ‘American Keynes’ Alvin Hansen. He was the first American to win to Nobel Prize in Economics; and he is considered to be one of the founders of Neo-Keynesian Economics and a seminal figure in the development of Neoclassical Economics.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Neoclassical economics, Welfare economics, International economics
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B31 - Individuals; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B30 - General; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B32 - Obituaries

References

Parker, Randall E. (2002), Reflections on the Great Depression, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 25

Samuelson, Paul A. (5 September 2003), How I Became an Economist

Samuelson, Paul (1969), "The Way of an Economist", in Samuelson, P. A., International Economic Relations: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Economic Association, London: Macmillan, pp. 1–11

Web sources: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1970/samuelson-bio.html http://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/samuelson.htm