Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson, Volume 1—Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948. By Roger Backhouse. Oxford University Press; 760 pages; $34.95 and £22.99. IN 1940, Paul Samuelson needed an ...
WASHINGTON — OK, I should have headlined it, "My favorite economics books of 2016." There surely are many good books that I missed. Still, the four below share certain appealing characteristics. They ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...
Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott (W. W. Norton, 385 pp., $28.95) Macroeconomics has come a long way in the last century. We’ve learned a lot about the forces ...