New York, N.Y., Estados Unidos : Oxford University Press, c2017.

xxi, 736 : il. ; 24 cm.

Oxford studies in the history of economics

Volume 1. Becoming Samuelson, 1915-48 -- I. The early years, 1915-1935. -- 1. Childhood. -- 2. The University of Chicago, 1932. -- 3. Natural and social sciences, 1932-1933. -- 4. Social scientist to mathematical economist, 1933-1934. -- 5. Economics at Chicago, 1932-1935. -- II. The Harvard years, 1935-1940. -- 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. -- III. MIT, war, foundations, and the textbook, 1940-1948. -- 16. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -- 17. Statistics. -- 18. Developing the new economics, I: theory 1940-1943. -- 19. Hansen and the national resources planning board, 1941-1943. -- 20. Developing the new economics, II: policy, 1942-1943. -- 21. Scientists and science policy, 1944-1947. -- 22. Foundations of economic analysis, 1940-1947. -- 23. Postwar economic policy, 1944-1947. -- 24. Keynes and Keynesian economics. -- 25. Drafting the textbook, 1945. -- 26. Controversy over the textbook, 1947-1948. -- 27. Economics, the first edition, 1948. -- 28. Commitment to MIT. -- 29. The young Samuelson. --

Tomado de Amazon: "Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work transformed the field of economics and helped give it the theoretical and mathematic rigor that increased its influence in business and policy making. In Founder of Modern Economics, Roger E. Backhouse explores the central importance of Samuelson's personality and social networks to understanding his intellectual development. This is the first of two volumes covering Samuelson's extended and productive life and career. This volume surveys Samuelson's early years growing up in the Midwest to his experiences at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, where leading scholars in economics and other disciplines stimulated and rewarded his curiosity. His thinking was influenced by the natural sciences and he understood that a critical, scientific approach increased insights into important social and economic questions. He realized that these questions could not be answered through rhetorical debate but required rigor. His "eureka" moment came, he said, when "a good fairy whispered to me that math was a skeleton key to solve age old problems in economics." Backhouse traces Samuelson's thinking from his early days to the publication of his groundbreaking book Foundations of Economic Analysis and Economics: An Introductory Analysis, which influenced generations of students. His work set the stage for economics to become a more cohesive and coherent discipline, based on mathematical techniques that provided surprising insights into many important topics, from business cycles to wage and unemployment rates, and from how competition influences trade to how tax rates affects tax collection." --

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