Foundations of Economic Analysis

by Paul A. Samuelson

Economics

Genres: Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Nonfiction

447 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist. The first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize in 1970, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the "Father of Modern Economics", and The New York Times considered him to be the "foremost academic economist of the 20th century"

Reviews

[Nick Black]

Work all the way through it, with a good reference to PDE's at your side. It's incredibly rewarding and remains the only economics book I've felt not entirely full of its own asshole.

[Leonardo]

It has become [...] more common to argue that Pareto optimality is a necessary condition for social optimality, even though not sufficient. If Pareto optimality is not sufficient (though necessary), we need some further criteria to make judgments about different distributions, and the question arises how that supplementation may be done. The need for using systematic procedures for this supplementation was discussed by Abram Bergson, and extensively explored by Paul Samuelson in his classic treatise Foundations of Economic Analysis.

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[Richard]

Probably the most influential book in economics since WWII.

[Craig Bolton]

Foundations of Economic Analysis (Atheneum Paperbacks) by Paul A. Samuelson (1965)

[Kyaw]

i interest about this book.

[Bill Zhou]

Hard to read, but still masterpiece.