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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fischer, Stanley

Titel

Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915–2009)

Ist Teil von

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, p.11893-11907

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Paul Anthony Samuelson (born in Gary, Indiana, in 1915) made fundamental contributions to nearly all branches of economic theory. Besides the specific analytic contributions, Samuelson more than anyone else brought economics from its pre–1930s verbal and diagrammatic mode of analysis to the quantitative mathematical style and methods of reasoning that have dominated for many decades. Beyond that, his Economics (McGraw Hill, first edition, 1948, now in its nineteenth edition, the first with a co-author, William D. Nordhaus) has educated millions of students, teaching that economics, however dismal, need not be dull.