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E. Roy Weintraub writes that "To call Samuelson a Walrasian, or a 
formalist, is inappropriate". Leaving aside the issue of formalism 
(and also the general thesis of the posting and earlier editorial) 
to consider only the narrow question of how appropriately Samuelson may be  
called a Walrasian, I notice that Samuelson claimed in the introduction to  
the 1983 enlarged edition of Foundations that "The first edition of  
Foundations of Economic Analysis was a culmination and also a beginning.  
It finally achieved for economics a synthesis of Cournot's Newtonian calculus  
method of maximizing with Walras's equations of general equilibrium."  
There is of course a question as to the extent to which an author is a  
privileged commentator on the nature and significance of his or her earlier  
work.  
 
                                Robert Dimand 
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                                Department of Economics 
                                Brock University 
                                St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 
                                Canada  
 
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