Macroeconomics would not be what it is today without Edmund Phelps. This book assembles the field's leading figures to highlight the continuing influence of his ideas from the past four decades. Addressing the most important current debates in macroeconomic theory, it focuses on the rates at...

Biographical note: Mark Davis, Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London, has written three books on stochastic modeling and control, most recently "Markov Models and Optimization". Alison Etheridge, Professor of Probability at the University of Oxford, is the author of "A Course in...

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1. Introduction- Richard G. Anderson -- Part I: Samuelson’s Contribution to Economics: Methodology and Mathematics -- 2. Paul Samuelson’s Ideology and Scientific Economics- J. Daniel Hammond -- 3. Re-Examining Samuelson’s Operationalist Methodology- D. Wade Hands -- 4. The Young Paul...