The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson

"It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale ofhis work should be so much taken for granted," a reviewer for the Economist once observed,marking both Paul Samuelson's influence and his astonishing prolificacy. These two volumes gatherthe Nobel Laureate's final writings. Samuelson declined suggestions that he write an autobiography.Yet the texts in these volumes (selected by Samuelson with the help of his longtime assistant,Janice Murray) have a somewhat autobiographical cast, with tributes to friends and colleagues andspeeches and interviews of both personal and historic interest. Volume 6 offers essays on classicaleconomics; neoclassical, Marxian, and Sraffian economics; modern macroeconomics; welfare andefficiency economics; and economic and scientific theories. Volume 7 covers stochastic theory;modern economic policy; biographical essays; and autobiographical writings.[Revised appendixesaccompany Samuelson and Etula's "Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments ofMainstream Economists Supporting Globalization" and a previously unpublished"Afterthought" has been added to Samuelson's Dictionary of American Biography text onJoseph Schumpeter.] Additionally, three contributions omitted from early volumes have been included.The acknowledgements sections list the strict chronological order of the papers. The seven volumesof Samuelson's collected papers document the long and distinguished career of one of America's mostimportant economists.

Paul Samuelson (1915--2009) received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970. He was Institute Professor, Emeritus; Professor of Economics, Emeritus; and Gordon Y. Billard Fellow at MIT. His influential Economics: An Introductory Analysis is the most widely used economics textbook ever published.