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Feb 10, 2022Liked by Claudia Sahm

Love your discussion of Joan Robinson and Samuelson. I studied econ at Cambridge (Eng) in the early 70s and had the privilege of meeting her a few times. Loved her writing - for the most part not formally mathematical in the sense of equations but absolutely rigorous, reading it was like trying to solve a puzzle. Great injustice she never got the Nobel

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Typo: "CHILDREN WHO WENT TO BE HUNGRY"

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thanks, Austin.

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Some of those quotations from the 1948 Samuelson would sit well within an MMT talk by Stephanie Kelton or Warren Mosler. Memo to future historians of economics: Were these retained in future versions of Samuelson's textbook? In Mankiw's?

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