Inside the Economist’s Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists.
SAMUELSON, Paul; Barnett.
Inside the Economist’s Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists.
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First edition. Octavo, original illustrated boards. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued. Signed by Paul Samuelson, who served as editor and Paul Volcker, who was interviewed for this book.
Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics, the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970 for having written considerable parts of economic theory. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came, in part, from his mentor, polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics, Willard Gibbs. Samuelson, therefore, is a successful example of interdisciplinarity, and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947).
