Titre
Making Things Technical: Paul Samuelson at MIT
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Maas, H.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
0018-2702
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2014
Volume
46
Numéro
Annual Supplement
Première page
272
Dernière page/numéro d’article
294
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This article examines how Samuelson defined his own role as an economist as a technical expert, who walked what he called the "middle of the road" to-seemingly-stay out of the realm of politics. As point of entry I discuss the highly tempting offers made by Theodore M. Schultz in the 1940s to come over to Chicago, which Schultz persistently repeated over three years and despite strong Chicago faculty resistance. A contrast between Schultz's own experiences as an economic expert at Iowa State, Samuelson's work as an external consultant for the National Resources Planning Board during the Second World War, and the firm support of the MIT administration for Samuelson's research serves to pinpoint the meaning of being technical for Samuelson, and the relation of the technical economic expert to the realm of politics.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_8F30BC1D777A
Date de création
2016-01-17T19:34:07.333Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T04:48:53Z