Warren Joseph Samuels (September 14, 1933 – August 17, 2011) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. He received a BBA from

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, Miami, FL and obtained his Ph.D. from

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. After holding academic posts in the

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, Atlanta, and

, he was appointed Professor of Economics in

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in 1968, where he stayed until his retirement in 1998. Warren Samuels made contributions to the

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and the methodology of economics. His work was inspired primarily by his "interest in generating greater clarity as to the economic role of government both in the history of economic thought and in contemporary economics". He described himself as "a self-professed institutionalist (in a blend of several other schools)." Samuels (2011), p.&nbs
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Samuels received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University. He was a founding member of the History of Economics Society, recipient of the Veblen-Commons Award from the

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and longtime editor of its ''

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''.

Major publications

* * ''Essays on the History of Economics'' (with Willie Henderson, Kirk Johnson, and Marianne Johnson, 2004. * * ''The Economy as a Process of Valuation'' (with Steven G. Medema and A. Allan Schmid), 1997. * ''Economic Thought and Discourse in the Twentieth Century'' (with Jeff Biddle and Thomas Patchak-Schuster), 1993. * ''Gardiner C. Means: Institutionalist and Post-Keynesian'' (with Steven G. Medema), 1990. * ''Pareto on Policy'', 1974. * ''The Classical Theory of Economic Policy'', 1966.

References

Secondary sources

* M. Blaug (ed.) - ''Who's who in economics'' (3d edition), 1999. * Ross Emmett
Biography

External reference

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Samuels, Warren 20th-century American economists 21st-century American economists Historians of economic thought Miami University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Missouri faculty Michigan State University faculty 1933 births 2011 deaths