Paul Samuelson proposed and practiced a program for the Whig history of economics. One such example is his account of Frank Ramsey's contribution to optimal taxation in 1927. For him and mainly for the public finance economists who rediscovered later Ramsey's contribution, Ramsey was a genius...

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (b.: Feb. 22, 1903; d.: Jan. 19, 1930) was a Cambridge mathematician who made important contributions not only to philosophy, mathematics, logic, and probability, but also to economics with two major works published in 1927 and 1928 in the Economic Journal, which became popular...