Biographical Sketch
Warren J. Samuel, Ph.D.

[2002]

Warren J. Samuels is professor emeritus of economics at Michigan State University. He specializes in the history of economic thought, methodology and philosophy of economics, and the economic role of government. A five-volume collection of his work was published in 1992 by Macmillan, London.

Some recent articles include "Institutional Economics after One Century," "Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: an Introduction," "The Economic Role of Government As, In Part, A Matter of Selective Perception, Sentiment and Valuation: The Cases of Pigovian and Paretian Welfare Economics" (with Stephen Medema, in AJES, Jan 2000), "Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of Economic Thought: an Interpretive Essay," "The Rehabilitation of Kondratiev and of Kondratiev Studies: Introduction," "An Institutionalist Approach to Income Distribution," "Alfred Marshall and Neoclassical Economics: Insights from his Correspondence," "Murray Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought," "On the Labor Theory of Value as a Theory of Value," "Comment: Keynes on the Classics: A Revolution Mainly in Definitions?," "Forward" to Robert V. Andelson, ed., Land Value Taxation Around the World.

Dr. Samuels lives in Okemos Michigan.