“A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall

Roger E. Backhouse

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53032-7_11

“A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall

Roger E. Backhouse^*

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Economics

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Paul Samuelson is renowned as a debunker of Alfred Marshall. This chapter reviews his assessments of Marshall. It concludes that, although the conventional view is correct, it is important also to recognise that Samuelson considered Marshall to have been a great economist, albeit one who could have been even greater.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage
Subtitle of host publication	Essays in Honour of Tiziano Raffaelli
Editors	Katia Caldari, Marco Dardi, Steven G. Medema
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	269-281
Number of pages	13
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030530327
ISBN (Print)	9783030530310, 9783030530341
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53032-7_11
Publication status	Published - 25 Oct 2020

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Name	Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
ISSN (Print)	2662-6578
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-6586

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Keywords

Imperfect competition
Marshall
Samuelson

ASJC Scopus subject areas

History and Philosophy of Science
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

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Backhouse, R. E. (2020). “A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall. In K. Caldari, M. Dardi, & S. G. Medema (Eds.), Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tiziano Raffaelli (1 ed., pp. 269-281). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53032-7_11

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Backhouse, RE 2020, “A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall. in K Caldari, M Dardi & SG Medema (eds), Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tiziano Raffaelli. 1 edn, Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53032-7_11

“A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall. / Backhouse, Roger E.
Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tiziano Raffaelli. ed. / Katia Caldari; Marco Dardi; Steven G. Medema. 1. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 269-281 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought).

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Backhouse RE. “A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall. In Caldari K, Dardi M, Medema SG, editors, Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tiziano Raffaelli. 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. p. 269-281. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought). Epub 2020 Oct 24. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-53032-7_11

“A Great Economist” and “A Careful Empiricist”: Paul Samuelson’s Attitude Towards Alfred Marshall

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