Paul Samuelson: Master of Modern Economics

A significant part of economics as we know it today is the outcome of battles thattook place in the post-war years between Keynesians and monetarists. In the US, the focus of these battles was often between the neo-Keynesians at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Chicago monetarists. Theundisputed leader of the MIT Keynesians was Paul A. Samuelson, one of the mostinfluential economists of the 20th century and arguably of all time. Samuelson'soutput covered a vast number of subjects within economics, the quality of these often pioneering contributions unmatched in the modern era.
The volume focuses both on how Samuelson's work has been developed byothers and on how that work fits into subsequent developments in the variousfields of speciality within which Samuelson operated.