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Samuels, Warren Joseph was born on September 14, 1933 in New York City. Son of Emanuel Abraham and Lillian Naomi (Glazer) Samuels.
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Warren Samuels interprets Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology in terms of a general equilibrium model of policy. Three themes and one conviction run throughout the study. The first is a model of policy making involving three sets of variables: power, knowledge, and psychology. The second is a general equilibrium approach to the study of these variables emphasizing their fundamental interdependence. The third is the importance of Pareto’s work. Pareto is one of the few individuals whose work has had enormous influence in at least three social sciences in the twentieth century: economics, sociology, and political science. Despite Pareto’s attempt in the Treatise to produce a general sociology encompassing all of these sciences (as well as psychology), his work has been treated almost completely from the perspectives of the individual disciplines. This volume’s interpretation is consonant with Pareto’s intention in the Treatise, namely, to provide a general equilibrium model of the total socio-politico-economic decision-making or policy process. The book is directed at those who comprehend these as processes whose structure, conduct, and performance are a function of complex decision making. Social scientists and policy analysts have moved beyond models that solve problems in the abstract, without working them out through policy making in the real world. The approach outlined here is important to those who are interested in pursuing the working rules of law and morals that govern the distribution and exercise of power as well as the exercise of power that governs the development of these rules.
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An essential addition to any economics library, these five volumes present the contributions and writings of an influential and prolific scholar.
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Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity. Combining a selection of old and new essays by Warren J. Samuels that chart a number of key themes, it provides an important commentary on the development of an academic field and demonstrates how policy is structured and manipulated by human social construction. The areas covered include: • the role of manufactured belief • power • the nature and sources of rights • the construction of markets by firms and governments and the problem of continuity and change in the form of the question of the selectively defined status quo and its status • the absolutist character of government, rights, markets and legal principles and the accepted ideational structure of law. The Legal-Economic Nexus is an essential read both economists and legal professionals as well as those researching the history of economic thought and the social construction of law.
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The history of economics comprises the accumulated capital of the discipline and its study permits both the retrieval of important ideas and the conduct of analysis which places present-day work in context. The essays in this book demonstrate some of the variety of uses to which the history of economics, as a sub-discipline, can be put. "Economic Thought and Discourse in the Twentieth Century" commences with an essay on John R. Hicks, one of the leading economic theorists of the 20th century and a writer with much to say about the nature of economic theory and the functions of the history of economic thought. An essay on Thorstein Verblen examines a figure who is at once both idiosyncratic and monumental, and whose work on war and peace is seen both to have been deeply prescient at the time it was written, and to be critically relevant at the close of the 20th century. The third piece in this collection is a study of the discursive and interpretative structure of Alfred Marshall's "Principles of Economics". More than a century after its publication, the "Principles" is widely regarded as one of the most important, and immediately influential, works of economic science ever written. Yet, it is argued, marshall's use of language and argument may well have been equal in importance to the analytical techniques which he demonstrated the concluding essay on the early journal history of law and economic places in perspective much of the early journal history of law and economics places in perspective much of the contemporary work in this area and suggests that more could be expected from a field with such a rich and suggestive history. These essays will make significant contributions both to their respective subjects and to the historiography of economics.
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Samuels, Warren Joseph was born on September 14, 1933 in New York City. Son of Emanuel Abraham and Lillian Naomi (Glazer) Samuels.
Bachelor of Business Administration, University Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1954. Master of Science, University Wisconsin, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1957.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University Missouri, Columbia, 1957-1958, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1958-1959. Assistant Professor, Association Professor of Economics, University Miami, Florida, 1959-1968. Professor of Economics, Mich.
State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America,
. Editor, Journal of Economic Issues, 1971-1981. Editorial Board, History of Political Economy, since 1969, Southern Economic Journal, 1967-
Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, since 1977, Policy Studies 7.
Editor, Research in the History of Economics Thought and Methodology (JAI Press).
( Providing another key contribution to the immensely pop...)
(The history of economics comprises the accumulated capita...)
( An essential addition to any economics library, these f...)
( An essential addition to any economics library, these f...)
( Warren Samuels interprets Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on...)
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Author: Classical Theory of Economic Policy, 1966, Pareto on Policy, 1974. Editor: Fundamentals of the Economic Role of Government, 1989, Economics as Discourse, 1990, Economics, Government and Law, 2002, A Companion to The History of Economic Thought, 2003, Essays in the History of Economics, 2004, The Legal-Economic Nexus, 2007.
From the
very beginning of my career I have been interested in generating greater clarity as to the economic role of government both in the history of economic thought and in contemporary economics. This often has taken the form of identifying fundamentals otherwise obscured by abstract and misleading or incomplete ideological and theoretical formulations. This quest has channelled most, although not all, of my work in the history of economic thought and in the legal-economic fundamentals of welfare economics, regulation, property rights and law and economics.
For the last decade or so I also have been involved in researching the conceptual and sociological origins of modern economics in the period 1870- 1914.
This has involved work in identifying the nature and consequences of different modes of doing intellectual history. The dynamics of theoretical and school development. The identification of the considerations which seem to have governed economists during that period in making their choices as to what constituted economics and how economics was to be done.
And the consequences for the practice of economics of those choices. In short, a sociological or social history of economics which is neither internalist nor externalist (as those concepts generally have been used) but which focusses on statusoriented considerations operating within the increasingly self-conscious and professionalising discipline. As in my work on the economic role of government, I am less interested in the ideological self-perceptions of economists than in what those selfperceptions have generated in terms of disciplinary practice.
President History of Economics Society, 1981-1982, Association for Social Economics, 1988. Member American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Association for Evolutionary Economics, Law and Society Association, History of Science Society, History of Economics Society (president 1981-1982), Association for Social Economics (president 1988), National Tax Association, Kondratiev Society (medal 2001).
Cooking, mystery stories.
Married Sylvia Joan Strake, June 27, 1954. Children: Kathy Joan Samuels Nagy, Susan Jill.