Marginalizing Maclaurin: the attempt to develop an economics of technical progress at MIT, 1940-1950

Roger Backhouse; Harro Maas

doi:10.1215/00182702-3638619

Marginalizing Maclaurin: the attempt to develop an economics of technical progress at MIT, 1940-1950

Roger Backhouse, Harro Maas

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Abstract

This article discusses the attempt by W. Rupert Maclaurin to develop, through a research project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, an economics of technological change. Focusing on the difference between Maclaurin's style of economics and the more technical approach to economics being developed at MIT by Paul Samuelson, it documents a route not taken in the history of economics. It fills a gap in recent work on the history of economics at MIT.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	423-447
Number of pages	25
Journal	History of Political Economy
Volume	48
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3638619
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016

Keywords

history of science
Technological innovation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linear Model of innovation
MIT economics

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History and Philosophy of Science
Economics and Econometrics

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