Samuel Hollander, (

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: שמואל הולנדר; born April 6, 1937) is a

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. Born in

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, he received a B.Sc. in economics from the

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in 1959. In 1961 he received an AM and a Ph.D. in 1963 from

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. He started with the

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becoming an Assistant Professor (1963–1966), Associate Professor (1966–1970), Professor (1970–1984), University Professor (1984–1998), and upon his retirement in 1998, University Professor Emeritus. Since 2000 he has been a professor at

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. He became a citizen of Canada in 1967 and of Israel in 2000. Samuel Hollander is one of the most influential and controversial living authors on

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, especially on

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. His monumental studies of

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and

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have provoked some sharp reactions. Especially his "new view" of David Ricardo as a direct predecessor of later neo-classical economists such as

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and Walras has triggered heated debates. Apart from many critics he has also enjoyed the support of a considerable number of prominent fellow economists. His work was highly recommended by the late

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, who says "... he really surpasses all previous historians of economic thought, especially on Ricardo" (Robbins, 1998, p. 143).

Most important publications

# ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/I The Economics of Adam Smith'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and London: Heinemann), 1973, x + 350. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/II The Economics of David Ricardo'' (Toronto: UTP and London: Heinemann), 1979, xiv + 759. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/III The Economics of John Stuart Mill'' (Toronto: UTP and Oxford: Blackwell), 1985: Volume I, Theory and Method, xx + 481. Volume II, Political Economy, 482-1030. # ''Classical Economics'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987; Toronto: UTP, 1992), x + 485. # ''Collected Essays/I Ricardo. The ‘New View’'' (London and New York: Routledge), 1995, xiv + 369. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/IV The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus'' (Toronto: UTP), 1997, xviii + 1045. # ''Collected Essays/II The Literature of Political Economy'' (London and New York: Routledge), 1998, xv + 410. # ''Collected Essays/III John Stuart Mill on Economic Theory and Method'' (London and New York: Routledge), 2000, xiii + 299. # ''Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics: the British Connection in French Classicism'' (London and New York: Routledge), 2005, xiii + 322. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/V. The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)'' (Cambridge University Press), 2008, 552. # ''Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)'' (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, April 2011)

Honours

* In 1976 he was made a Fellow of the

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. * In 1998 he was made an Officer of the

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. * In 1999 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society
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References

* Official website: http://www.samuel-hollander.com/ *

Autobiographical memoir from the book ''Collected Essays/II The Literature of Political Economy'' (1998)

External links

Samuel Hollander archival papers
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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollander, Samuel 1937 births Living people British economists Canadian economists Historians of economic thought Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Alumni of the London School of Economics Israeli people of Canadian-Jewish descent British people of Canadian-Jewish descent English people of Canadian-Jewish descent Princeton University alumni