Podcasts that mention 📚 Economics, an introductory analysis by Paul Anthony Samuelson, Nordhaus, William D., William D. Nordhaus

Yeah, he came up only as an object of dismissal; for example, the major textbook in economics that I was taught with and that was for many years the canonical book, it isn't quite anymore, was a book authored by a professor of economics at MIT named Paul Samuelson, and people kind of—you know, a whole generation or two were trained on his textbook.

Richard Wolff reflects on his education in economics, noting that the major textbook he studied, which was widely accepted for years, was by Paul Samuelson. He points out that this example illustrates how Marx's ideas were often dismissed in the academic context.

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