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May

Publication in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy: Taming, the West and Russian economic thought: a historical perspective; M. Boianovsky

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 […]

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Voluminous, Repetitive, and Intractable: Samuelson on Early Development Economics (History of Political Economy); M. Boianovsky

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[…]