“I think of Samuelson as a good friend,” Zeckhauser once said, “not my good friend, but a good friend.” That, more than any single intellectual contribution (or even all of them put together, as the exemplar of an intellectual epoch), is probably the way Paul Samuelson is best remembered. As the father of the “mixed economy,” he was a generalized good friend to every citizen of the world.
http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2009.12.20/847.html The leading undergraduate econ text was Samuelson's in 1969. He had a theory that the US economy is mixed capitalism/socialism. Wha happened ta that ? “I think of Samuelson as a good friend,” Zeckhauser once said, “not my good friend, but a good friend.” That, more than any single intellectual contribution (or even all of them put together, as the exemplar of an intellectual epoch), is probably the way Paul Samuelson is best remembered. As the father of the “mixed economy,” he was a generalized good friend to every citizen of the world. http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2009.12.20/847.html https://www.facebook.com/bruce.bartlett/posts/10153105338005437?comment_id=42632255&offset=0&total_comments=43 Bruce Bartlett 2 hours ago · Damn Obama! Worst socialist EVER. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
