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Paul Samuelson has made an indelible imprint on modern economics. He ranks among history-making economists for his accomplishments in refining, advancing, and spreading economic knowledge. He has played an outstanding role in the analytical revolution in economic theory. He was the 1970 (first American) recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science (the first prize was awarded in 1969 to Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch); excerpts from the citation read:
By his many contributions, Samuelson has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory.... He has rewritten considerable parts of central economic theory, and has in several areas achieved results which now rank among the classical theorems of economics.
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Feiwel, G.R. (1982). Samuelson and Contemporary Economics: An Introduction . In: Feiwel, G.R. (eds) Samuelson and Neoclassical Economics. Recent Economic Thought, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7377-0_1
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