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3. Nobel Laureate: Paul A. Samuelson (1915‐ )

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 424-452

Explores the life of Paul A. Samuelson, of whom it is said, that he is the ‘last generalist in economics’, from his …

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4. Nobel Laureate: Simon Kuznets (1901‐1985)

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 453-478

Claims Kuznets is a quantification economist, e.g. a statistician who used the theory of models to find answers to problems. Covers, in depth, Kuznets’ early Russian‐Jewish upbringing to his further development in the USA. Concludes that Kuznets recognized what was missing rather than what...

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5. Nobel Laureate: Kenneth J. Arrow (1921‐ )

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 479-526

mathematical economics. Covers his work in depth and his achievements in the school of thought of economics, adding that the modern …

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6. Nobel Laureate: Sir John R. Hicks (1904‐1989)

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 527-547

at his early career as a lecturer at the London School of Economics and his development in the economics field. Concludes …

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7. Nobel Laureate: Wassily Leontief (1906‐1999)

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 548-558

Focuses on Wassily Leontif’s early upbringing in St Petersburg (Leningrad), and his education at the university there. Continues with his various overseas postings that followed with time. Mentions his famous connection with the formulation and application of the input‐output method.

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8. Nobel Laureate: Friedrich A. Hayek (1899‐1992)

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 559-580

University, plus his further work at New York University and the London School of Economics, the University of Chicago and …

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9. Nobel Laureate: Gunnar Myrdal (1898‐1987)

Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 581-590

Profiles Gunnar Myrdal, who was born in Sweden, but after his graduation from Stockholm University’s Law School, studied in Germany and England, before moving to the USA, where he was commissioned to make an in‐depth study of the ‘sAmerican Negro problem’s (1944). Equality was a...

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The evolution of development economics and globalization

Piasecki, Ryszard; Wolnicki, Miron - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 3, pp. 300-314

The legacy of the last 50 years of development economics is not very inspiring. In the 1960s and 1970s, instead of … looking at the real causes and viable solutions to poverty and underdevelopment, development economics was preoccupied with …. Despite its past problems, development economics has recently evolved to better reflect the realities of developing countries …

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Taiwan's Application to GATT/WTO: Significance of Multilateralism for an Unrecognized State

Todd, Daniel - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 3, pp. 318-320

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The influence of ideas and the problem of a social science

Armour, Leslie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 4, pp. 389-416

The influence of ideas is a central but puzzling problem in the social sciences. Parsons insisted that ideas play a central role in social continuity as well as in social change. Basic ideas that organise experience become embedded in the public mind and structure the ways in which issues are...

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