"This book captures much of the spirit of Paul A. Samuelson. Those
who know Samuelson, one of the great economists of the twentieth
century, only through his writings may have already sensed his wit,
his intellect, his brilliance. This book brings these into focus,
through details of his personal history and a wealth of anecdotes
from colleagues and students." - Joseph E. Stiglitz (Foreword)
"Probably more than anyone else in the twentieth century, he
transformed the way economists think and write." - Avinash Dixit
"Samuelson set a standard in teaching and citizenship.that few if
any will ever match." - Kenneth Rogoff "To know Paul Samuelson is
to be engaged in a life-long intellectual conversation with the
most important economist of our times." - Richard Zeckhauser About
Paul Samuelson: Paul Anthony Samuelson is Institute Professor,
Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in the
American midwest in the first half of the twentieth century, he was
a provocative student of Jacob Viner and was later wooed from
Harvard to MIT. He developed original methodology and instigated
controversies in his profession. Samuelson is the author of the
best-selling economics textbook of all time, for which he never
received an author's advance payment. He is legendary for his
expansive, penetrating, undogmatic thinking and generosity of
spirit-to students and colleagues alike. He has contributed to
national economic policies and business trends and was the winner
of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics. Paul Samuelson: On Being an
Economist is a concise profile of this original thinker whose
forceful, profound, skeptical and expansive intellect drove one of
the fundamental transformations of twentieth-century economic
theory. About the Authors: Michael Szenberg, Ph.D., Distinguished
Professor of Economics and Chair, Finance and Economics Department,
Lubin School of Business, Pace University, is editor-in-chief of
The American Economist. His books include New Frontiers in
Economics, coedited with Lall Ramrattan, with a Foreword by Paul A.
Samuelson (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Aron A. Gottesman,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics Department, Lubin
School of Business, Pace University, is coauthor of Insurance
Logic, Second Edition (Captus Press, 2005). Lall Ramrattan, Ph.D.
teaches Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His
books include Reflections of Eminent Economists, coedited with
Michael Szenberg (Elgar Publishing Co., 2004).
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