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

Roger Backhouse

A chapter in Marshall and the Marshallian Heritage, 2021, pp 269-281 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Marshall; Imperfect competition; Samuelson (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53032-7_11

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