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  Paul SAMUELSON
Samuelson was one of the progenitors of the Paretian revival in microeconomics and the Neo-Keynesian Synthesis in macroeconomics during the post-war period.
In macroeconomics, Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator macrodynamic model (1939) is justly famous, as is his presentation of the Phillips Curve (1960) to the world.
Paul Samuelson's many contributions to Neoclassical economic theory were recognized with a Nobel Memorial prize in 1970.
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 Paul Samuelson
Samuelson was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1947 and was sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970, the second year of the Prize.
Samuelson was born in 1915 in Gary, Indiana.
Samuelson was one of the first economists to generalize and apply mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to economics.
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 Samuelson's Poor Economics
Paul Samuelson is still perhaps the preeminent representative of the contemporary approach in academic economic theory.
Samuelson is a brilliant mathematician, and his intellectual power (and good sense of humor) is not in dispute.
The fundamental problem in Samuelson's approach -- and that of 20th century academic economic theory generally -- is that it assumes economic activity is susceptible to the sort of precision that exists in the physical sciences.
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 Paul A. Samuelson - FREE Paul A. Samuelson Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
In 1970, Samuelson received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on behalf of his efforts to "raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory." His contributions to the systematization of economic theory's underlying mathematical structure are probably unequaled by any other 20th-century economist.
Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication.
Paul Samuelson was a graduate student at Harvard...
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 Paul Samuelson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Paul Anthony Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, and educated at the University of...
Paul A. Samuelson, 1915- Perhaps more than anyone else, Paul A. Samuelson has personified mainstream economics in the second half of the twentieth century.
Paul Anthony Samuelson (born May 15, 1915) is an American neoclassical economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of...
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 The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson
Samuelson wrote:, "Disappearing to zero was, in my reconsidered judgment, an overshoot." He argued that Japan in 1992-94 could be viewed as a modern-day example of the paradox of thrift.
Samuelson's desire to homogenize mainstream economics into one grand "neo-classical synthesis" is evident in his "family tree of economics." Beginning with the fourth edition (1958, flap), the author created a genealogical diagram of economic thought from the Greeks to the present.
To the extent that Samuelson's text has been a much-imitated leader among all principles textbooks, it is reasonable to ask how helpful these texts would have been in thinking about the issues of public debt, inflation, foreign competition, recession, unemployment and taxes that have challenged the public over the past 50 years.
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 Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson's most famous piece of work, Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947), one of the grand tomes that helped revive neo-classical economics and launched the era of the mathematization of economics.
In macroeconomics, Paul Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator macrodynamic model (1939) is justly famous, as is his presentation of the Phillips Curve (1960) to the world.
Paul Samuelson's many contributions to neo-classical economic theory were recognized with a Nobel Memorial prize in 1970.
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  Paul Samuelson on Outsourcing -- Monday, September 13, 2004
Samuelson said he wrote the article to "set the record straight" because "the mainstream defenses of globalization were much too simple a statement of the problem." Mr.
Samuelson, who calls himself a "centrist Democrat," said his analysis did not come with a recipe of policy steps, and he emphasized that it was not meant as a justification for protectionist measures.
Samuelson, a low-wage nation that is rapidly improving its technology, like India or China, has the potential to change the terms of trade with America in fields like call-center services or computer programming in ways that reduce per-capita income in the United States.
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 Anti Essays : Free Essays on Paul Samuelson Biography Essay   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Paul Anthony Samuelson, an American economist, was born in Gary, Indiana, in 1915.
Samuelson has at various times served as a columnist for Newsweek magazine, a consultant to such research organizations as the Rand Corporation and to the Federal Reserve Board, as well as an adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
As Paul Samuelson was born in 1915 and is still alive today he lived during the modern era of economics.
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 Paul Samuelson - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
Paul Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, in 1915.
Samuelson developed broad frameworks, such as the neoclassical synthesis, a mixed economy, and the surrogate production function, which provided practitioners with a vision for research.
Samuelson introduced the use of comparative statics and dynamics through his "correspondence principle" (1947) which he used in his contributions to the dynamic stability of general equilibrium (1941, 1944).
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 Paul Samuelson - Biocrawler
He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1947 and The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970.
Stanislaw Ulam once challenged Samuelson to name one theory in all of the social sciences which is both true and nontrivial.
Generally speaking, Samuelson's contribution has been that, more than any other contemporary economist, he has contributed to raising the general analytical and methodological level in economic science.
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 Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson is considered by many to be the founder of neoclassical economics.
Samuelson is predominantly acknowledged for his public finance theory on determining the optimal allocation of resources in the presence of both public goods and private goods.
Paul Samuelson was the first Jew to receive the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1970 for his contributions in numerous fields of economics.
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 Paul Anthony Samuelson, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
In a 1938 article Samuelson introduced the concept of "revealed preference." His goal was to be able to tell by observing a consumer's choices whether he or she was better off after a change in prices.
Samuelson also did path-breaking work in capital theory, but his contributions are too complex to describe in just a few sentences.
Samuelson, in a 1954 article, was the first to attempt a rigorous definition of a public good.
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 Paul Samuelson - Wikipedia
Samuelson conseguì il Bachelor's degree all'università di Chicago nel 1935, e il PhD alla Harvard University nel 1941.
Inoltre Samuelson era l'unico protegé di Edwin Bidwell Wilson, un matematico che a sua volta era stato l'unico protegé di Willard Gibbs, il fondatore della termodinamica chimica, che fu anche mentore dell'economista americano Irving Fisher: Gibbs ebbe una grande influenza nelle loro idee a proposito dell'equilbrio dei sistemi economici.
Stanislaw Ulam sfidò una volta Samuelson a menzionare una teoria nell'ambito delle scienze sociali che fosse sia vera, sia non banale.
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 Inside the Economist's Mind (I.T.E.M.): News about Paul Samuelson
Paul A. Samuelson was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Paul Samuelson's classic textbook, Economics, first published in 1948, is among the most successful textbooks ever published in the field.
The Daylife Samuelson Site provides press coverage about Paul and is the place to look for what the press is saying about him and what he is saying to the press.
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 EconLog, Paul Samuelson, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty
Samuelson told the story as "As a young boy, Gauss was fed some peas.
Samuelson belonged to a generation of economists whose leading lights were as brilliant as the top stars in any field.
Samuelson's accomplishments are probably worth 2-1/2 times those of the average Nobel Prize winner in economics.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson (born May 15, 1915) is an American economist known for his work in many fields of economics.
Welfare economics[?], in which he created the Samuelson tests[?] which are criteria for deciding whether an action will improve welfare;
Public finance theory[?], in which he is particularly known for his work on determining the optimal allocation of resources in the presence of both public goods and private goods[?].
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 "The Market Has No Heart": Paul Samuelson : Indybay
Samuelson, born in 1915 as the son of a druggist in Gary, Indiana, studied at the University of Chicago and later at Harvard before be became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge near Boston in 1940.
Samuelson: To prevent misunderstandings, life in a globalized world on the whole means that material prosperity expands.
Samuelson: Perhaps 35 years ago I gave an address to the Ford board of directors and asked them: “Can you imagine that a Ford could be manufactured at a lower price somewhere else in the world?” I thought at that time of Toyota.
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 Economic Principals
Paul Anthony Samuelson turned 90 last week, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (his long-time employer) and McGraw Hill Co. (his long-time publisher) threw him a grand party in Boston.
Samuelson himself designed the program, and, as usual, it centered on the topics that interested him, and artfully deflected attention from the history he had made himself.
Samuelson in those Newsweek columns is forever a spokesman for the research enterprise, for economics as a body of knowledge that accumulates.
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 Paul Samuelson
Samuelson was educated at the University of Chicago (B.A., 1935) and at Harvard, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1941.
Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947) provides the foundation for a basic theme of his work, the universal nature of consumer behaviour as the key to economic theory.
Samuelson studied such diverse fields as the dynamics and stability of economic systems, the incorporation of the theory of international trade into that of general economic equilibrium, the analysis of public goods, capital theory, welfare economics, and public expenditure.
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 Paul Samuelson - Wikiquote
Tutto questo oggi potrà sembrare semplice, ma posso assicurarvi che nessuno a Chicago o ad Harvard nel 1935 era in grado di dirmi esattamente perché l'equivalenza fra prezzo e costo marginale era una cosa buona.
In generale, il contributo di Samuelson è che, più di ogni altro economista contemporaneo, ha contribuito a innalzare il livello analitico e metodologico generale nella scienza economica.
Ciò significa che i contributi di Samuelson si estendono a un gran numero di ambiti diversi.
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 Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson (born May 15, 1915) is an American economist known for his work in many fields of economics.
Welfare economics[?], in which he created the Samuelson tests[?] which are criteria for deciding whether an action will improve welfare;
Public finance theory[?], in which he is particularly known for his work on determining the optimal allocation of resources in the presence of both public goods and private goods[?].
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 JPB WORKING BIOGRAPHIES - PAUL SAMUELSON IN THE PRESS
Paul Samuelson, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a friend since the two professors met at Harvard in 1935, said Galbraith...
Paul Samuelson aside, the winners of the Nobel in economics usually are not well known by the (educated) general public, and Aumann in particular fits that...
Paul A Samuelson for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science.
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 Paul Samuelson
In 1970 Paul Samuelson became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in...
Paul A. Samuelson "In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics," wrote Paul Anthony...
Paul Samuelson's Economics ranks with the most successful textbooks ever published in the field, including the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo,...
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