The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson

"It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale of hiswork should be so much taken for granted," observes a reviewer in the Economist who goes on to notethat "a cynic might add that it would have been better for Professor Samuelson to write less merelyto give others a chance to write at all."In fact, Samuelson's output, his "extraordinary mastery ofmethods, both mathematical and linguistic" (review of Volume 4 of The Collected Scientific Papers),have not diminished. Volume 5 collects 108 articles written since 1976, bringing the total to nearly400 important contributions to economics. As in earlier volumes, the papers are arranged by subject.They cover Economic Theory: Marx, Keynes, and Schumpeter; International Economics; StochasticTheory; Classical Economics; Mathematical Biology; Biographical and Autobiographical Writings; andCurrent Economics and Policy.Volumes 1 through 4 encompass more than 280 articles. The first twocontain virtually all of Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964; Volume 3contains all the scientific papers written from mid-1964 through 1970, and the last volume bringshis work up to through 1976.Paul Samuelson received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970 and isInstitute Professor of Economics Emeritus at MIT. Kate Crowley edited volume 4 of The CollectedScientific Papers with Hiroaki Nagatani.