Samuelson's first edition has been reprinted: Samuelson, P. A. (1997 
[1948]) /Economics: The Original 1948 Edition/, New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Lawrence Boland wrote:
> Several have suggested that I look at catalogs.
>
> Actually, I have looked at the calendars for my undergraduate and 
> graduate
> universities -- 1957 and '61 for the former, and '61 and '65 for the 
> latter. In
> none of them were there micro or macro courses by title. In '57 and '61
> undergraduate calendars there were none even by description. However, 
> in both,
> there was classes in intermediate "price theory" and intermediate 
> "national
> income analysis". For graduate school in '61, there were two classes 
> in "general
> economic theory", neither of which mentions micro or macro as they 
> have the same
> description. When it came to '65 the titles were the same but one 
> mentions
> "general micro-economic theory" and the other "a review of Keynesian
> macro-economics".
>
> I have the fourth edition (1958) of Samuelson's textbook (which I used 
> in '61).
> He mentions micro vs macro on only two pages, the first of which he 
> promoted the
> neoclassical synthesis to say the "cleavage between [them] has been 
> closed" (p.
> 360).
>
> Does anyone have the first edition? My school is too new to have a 
> library copy.
>
> LB
>

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