Noci, Anna - In: Research in the history of economic thought and … 40B (2022), pp. 133-149
This paper reconstructs the clash between William Baumol’s and Paul Samuelson’s different approaches to the history of … thought. Samuelson applied his famous “Whig” history of economics to suggest that Marx had little to nothing to offer to … modern theorists, while Baumol was interested in the past authors’ theoretical and moral intentions. Baumol and Samuelson …