The Political Economy of Textbook Writing: Paul Samuelson and the making of the first ten Editions of Economics (1945-1976)
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- Yann Giraud, 2013. "The Political Economy of Textbook Writing : Paul Samuelson and the making of the first Ten Editions of Economics (1945-1976)," Working Papers hal-00870494, HAL.
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Paul Samuelson; Economics; Textbook; Politics; Economic Education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
- B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
- B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2011-10-09 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HME-2011-10-09 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2011-10-09 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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