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This post is the second of a three-parts serie on the founding of the econometric society. All comments…
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This post is based on an article accessible here presented at a workshop held in Nice in September…
We’ve seen how Hansen gradually wove a web between Harvard and Washington which led him in a favorable position,…
Alvin Hansen has played a key role in the development of economic ideas in the US. Within a few years,…
In the context of the 1937 recession, Paul Samuelson (1915-2009) provided a dynamic framework (1939) for studying the effects of…
As Paul Samuelson’s first PhD student, Lawrence Klein was well positioned to endorse the view that any macroeconomic models should…