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Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx: Were the Sacrificed Games of Tennis Worth It? (2006)

In: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest

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  • G C Harcourt

    (University of Cambridge
    Jesus College
    University of Adelaide
    University of New South Wales)

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When I read this, I thought: ‘Karl, that you should have lived to see this hour’. So, when I was asked by Michael Szenberg to contribute to the volume in honour of Paul’s 90th birthday, I thought it would be interesting and certainly appropriate to sketch Samuelson’s views on Marx as an economist, and any changes in them, over Samuelson’s working lifetime (to date, of course).1 As well as rereading some of his papers on Marx, I went through the references to Marx and topics related to him cited in the indexes of the various editions of Paul’s famous introductory textbook (since the 14th edition of 1992, Samuelson and Nordhaus) in order to trace both the waxing and waning over time of the space given to Marx, to see whether and, if so, how his views have changed. Because, with Prue Kerr (see Harcourt and Kerr, 1996; Harcourt, 2001), I have tried to explain to business people and managers what we think the essence of Marx’s legacy is, I have taken our evaluations as the backdrop against which to assess agreement and disagreement with Samuelson’s interpretations and evaluations. I hope he will find the chapter topic acceptable, not least because his contribution (Samuelson, 1997a), to volume I of the Festschriften for me was on Marx.

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  • G C Harcourt, 2012. "Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx: Were the Sacrificed Games of Tennis Worth It? (2006)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest, chapter 3, pages 84-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34865-3_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230348653_4
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