On 5/8/2011 7:32 AM, gavin wrote:
> ‘Given [Samuelson's] centrality to economics post-1939, for over 70 years he was the embodiment of modern history of economics.’
>
> He certainly was,

This seems reasonable, although still debatable, only if one equates 
economics with "mathematical economics" or with "political liberal 
economics." Thus, the unstated assumption, it seems to me, is that 
little else but mathematical and/or politically liberal economics 
matters since 1939. A simple check of Nobel Prize winners should attest 
to the hyperbole of such a statement.

-- 
Pat Gunning
Professor of Economics
Melbourne, Florida
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