About the Editors of Inside the Economist's Mind:
Paul A. Samuelson
was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. He is
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Institute Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Professor is the
highest rank awarded by MIT. His landmark 1947
book, Foundations of Economic Analysis,
based upon his Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University, established
him as "the economists' economist" by raising the standards of the
entire profession. Paul Samuelson's classic textbook, Economics,
first published in 1948, is among the most successful textbooks ever
published in the field. The book's 16 editions have sold over
four million copies and have been translated into 41 languages.
He received his B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. As one of the profession's most productive scholars for over a
half-century, he remains an intellectual force of towering stature.
William A. Barnett is Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at
the University of Kansas. He was previously Research Economist at the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC; Stuart Centennial
Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin; and Professor of
Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. William Barnett has been a leading researcher
in macroeconomics and econometrics. He
is one of the pioneers in the study of chaos and nonlinearity in socioeconomic
contexts, as well as a major figure in the study of the aggregation problem,
which lies at the heart of how individual and aggregate data are related. He is Editor of the Elsevier monograph series International
Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, and Editor of the
journal Macroeconomic Dynamics, published by Cambridge University
Press.
He received his B.S. degree from M.I.T., his M.B.A. from the University
of California at Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon
University. He has published 17 books (as either author or editor) and
over 130 articles in professional journals.