Robert A. Cord, Richard G. Anderson and William A. Barnett (eds), Paul Samuelson: Master of Modern Economics
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Yann Giraud, « Robert A. Cord, Richard G. Anderson and William A. Barnett (eds), Paul Samuelson: Master of Modern Economics », Œconomia, ID : 10.4000/oeconomia.8582
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Rarely have I read a more self-defeating sentence than the one that concludes the first paragraph of the introduction to this collection devoted to the life and work of MIT economist Paul Samuelson (1915-2009). This is a quote from the subject of this book himself: “How can I write about science while busily engaged in doing science?” (1). This, of course, begs the question: How can economists write about one of their discipline’s most celebrated figures while busily engaged in prolonging his...