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Prof. Roger Backhouse of University of Birmingham is the author of Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A Samuelson, Volume I: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 (2017). He writes a short profile of Samuelson in this aeon article: For 30 to 40 years after the end of the Second World War, Paul Samuelson was one of the best-known economists of all time. His name would have been familiar not just to other economists and students but to readers of The New York Times, The Washington Post and, above all, Newsweek, where he had a regular column for 15 years. In parts of the world, Samuelson’s fame even eclipsed that of John Maynard Keynes, who had been a major public figure as well as an economist. And yet there is a paradox at the heart of Samuelson’s work. His reputation was based on his
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Prof. Roger Backhouse of University of Birmingham is the author of Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A Samuelson, Volume I: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 (2017). He writes a short profile of Samuelson in this aeon article: For 30 to 40 years after the end of the Second World War, Paul Samuelson was one of the best-known economists of all time. His name would have been familiar not just to other economists and students but to readers of The New York Times, The Washington Post and, above all, Newsweek, where he had a regular column for 15 years. In parts of the world, Samuelson’s fame even eclipsed that of John Maynard Keynes, who had been a major public figure as well as an economist. And yet there is a paradox at the heart of Samuelson’s work. His reputation was based on his
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