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I first met Paul Samuelson after he came to Harvard in September 1935. He had just completed his undergraduate studies in Chicago. Having been awarded a Social Science Research Council Fellowship to do graduate work in economics, he had considered going to Columbia. Lest Harvard pride be unduly inflated by his decision in its favor, I must add that his decision cannot really be taken to attest to Harvard’s superior academic merit. As Paul (I have called him that for over four decades and must do so here) has explained, the impelling considerations were nonscholarly: essentially, the desire to be at a New England institution with “green ivy” (Samuelson 1977, pp. 887–888).
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Samuelson, P. A. 1977. The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson, Vol. 4. Ed. by H. Nagatani and K. Crowley. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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Bergson, A. (1982). Paul A. Samuelson: The Harvard Days . 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_21
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