Paul A. Samuelson Typed Letter Signed.

SAMUELSON, Paul A.

$650.00

Item Number: 147279

Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 13, 1956.

Rare typed letter signed by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Quarto, one page on Department of Economics and Social Science stationary, the letter reads, ‘Many thanks for your letter of March 6 inviting me to lecture at the Economic Education Workshop in August. I am flattered to be asked, and I’d like to do this — if only for the opportunity to see you again and to really see the University of Connecticut for the first time. Unfortunately, I have already promised my wife to leave this summer completely free. We are thinking of going to her home in Wisconsin at just about the time you name and I have promised her and the six children that this summer will not be interrupted by any professional activities. Will you express my regrets to your associates and accept them yourself. Sincerely, “Paul” Paul A. Samuelson p. s. I don’t know if you have any openings in your apartment for the coming year but I took the liberty a few days ago to suggest to Dr. Paul Cootner, a former graduate student of ours who came out of the Army last year and has been spending the year as an Intern at Brown, to write to you about a possible teaching position. I know Cootner very well and have a high opinion of him. I have heard authoritatively but indirectly from Brown of having some students want to transfer into his sections. I might also be able to suggest one or two other names if there is any chance you might be interested.’ In very good condition with mail folds, light toning, and some creasing and a few small losses to the edges.

Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics, the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for having written considerable parts of economic theory, and he is one of the ten Nobel Prize winning economists still signing the Economist's statement opposing the Bush tax cuts. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came, in part, from his mentor, polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics, Willard Gibbs.