Samuel HOLLANDER

Background

Hollander, Samuel was born on April 6, 1937 in London. Son of Jacob and Rachel-Leah (Bornstein) Hollander.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Economics, London School of Economics, 1959. Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1963.

Doctor of Laws, McMaster University, 1999.

Career

Born in London, he received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the London School of Economics in 1959. He started with the University of Toronto becoming an Assistant Professor (1963–1966), Associate Professor (1966–1970), Professor (1970–1984), University Professor (1984–1998), and upon his retirement in 1998, University Professor Emeritus. Since 2000 he is a Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

He became a citizen of Canada in 1967 and of Israel in 2000.

Samuel Hollander is one of the most influential and controversial living authors on History of Economic Thought, especially on classical economics. His monumental studies of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill have provoked some sharp reactions.

Especially his "new view" of David Ricardo as a direct predecessor of later neo-classical economists such as Marshall and Walras has triggered heated debates. Apart from many critics he has also enjoyed the support of a considerable number of prominent fellow economists.

His work was highly recommended by the late Lord Robbins, who says ".. he really surpasses all previous historians of economic thought, especially on Ricardo" (Robbins, 1998, p 143).

Achievements

• Samuel Hollander has been listed as a noteworthy Economist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Economics of John Stuart Mill (Studies in Classical Political Economy) (2 Volume Set)

    ( J.S. Mill plays a central role in the development of cl...)

  • Economics of Adam Smith

Politics

Volume II, Political Economy, 482-1030. The ‘New View’ (London and New York: Routledge), 1995, xiv + 369.

Views

The primary outcome of my research on eighteenthand nineteenth-century economics is the demonstration of the existence of a ‘core’ of analytics — essentially allocation via the price mechanism in terms of general equilibrium — common to various representations of the capitalist exchange system. This holds true of works of the most disparate ideological intent — those of Marx and Ricardo as well as of Adam Smith and the late ‘neoclassical’ economists. Any notion of a dual development of nineteenth- century analysis, involving systems centred upon demand-supply or embryonic general equilibrium versus systems wherein distribution is solved prior to pricing, is suspect.

Membership

Fellow Royal Society of Canada.

Interests

• 031 History of Economic Thought. 036 Economic Methodology.

Connections

Married Perlette Kéroub, July 20, 1959. Children: Frances, Isaac.

Father:

Jacob Hollander

Mother:

Rachel-Leah (Bornstein) Hollander

Spouse:

Perlette Kéroub

child:

Frances Hollander

child:

Isaac Hollander