The article discusses Evsey Domar's role as a link between economic thought in the West and in Russia, including her influence on some Brazilian economists. The Russian heritage he brought to the United States from Harbin (Manchuria) consisted of an interest in socialism and Russian history. He paid close attention to the controversy of […]
Unmissable! Lecture PPGECO/FACE/UnB with the renowned researcher Deirdre McCloskey, who recently became a foreign columnist at FSP.
In the late 1970s Paul Samuelson drafted the outline of a paper, never published, with a critical assessment of the theoretical innovations of postwar development economics. He found it a “vital” but essentially “not tractable” subject, with a “voluminous” and “repetitive” literature. This article discusses how that assessment fits in Samuelson's published writings on economic development, throughout[…]