TY - BOOK AU - Backhouse, Roger E. TI - Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 SN - 9780190664091 U1 - 330.092 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Economics N1 - Part I - The Early Years, 1915-35 1. Childhood 2. The University of Chicago, 1932 3. Natural and social sciences, 1932-3 4. Social scientist to mathematical economist, 1933-4 5: Economics at Chicago, 1932-5 PART II - The Harvard Years, 1935-40 6. First term at Harvard, Autumn 1935 7. Joseph Alos Schumpeter 8. Edwin Bidwell Wilson 9. Making Connections 10. Simplifying Economic Theory 11. Collaboration 12. Alvin Harvey Hansen 13. Hansen's disciple 14. The Observational Significance of Economic Theory 15. Leaving Harvard PART III - MIT, War, Foundations and the Textbook, 1940-8 16. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 17. Statistics 18. Developing the New Economics, I: Theory, 1940-3 19. Hansen and the National Resources Planning Board, 1941-3 20. Developing the New Economics, II: Policy, 1942-3 21. Scientists and Science Policy, 1944-5 22. Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1940-7 23. Postwar Economic Policy, 1944-7 24. Keynes and Keynesian economics 25. Drafting the textbook, 1945 26. Controversy over the textbook, 1947-8 27. Economics, the first edition, 1948 28. Commitment to MIT 29. Conclusions ER -