Economics (textbook)
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Economics is an introductory textbook by American economists Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus. It was first published in 1948, and has appeared in eighteen different editions, the most recent in 2004. It was the best selling economics textbook for many decades and still remain popular,[1] selling over 300,000 copies of each edition from 1961 through 1976.[2] The book has been translated into forty-one languages and in total has sold over four million copies.
Economics was written entirely by Samuelson until the 1985 twelfth edition. Newer editions have been primarily written by Nordhaus.
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- ^ Bethell, Tom (1989-10-13). "Socialism by the textbook: our best-selling economics textbooks still treat socialism as the ideal system, communism as its imperfect-but-ever-improving embodiment". National Review. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n19_v41/ai_7998155/pg_1. Retrieved on 2008-11-09.
- ^ Skousen, Mark (1997). "The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson's Economics". Journal of Economic Perspectives 11 (2): 137-152. http://www.mskousen.com/Books/Articles/perserverance.html.
- Samuelson, Paul A. (1948). Economics: An Introductory Analysis McGraw-Hill.
- Samuelson, Paul A.; William D Nordhaus (2004). Economics. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-287205-5.
- Samuelson, Paul A.; Harold W. McGraw, Jr., William D. Nordhaus, Orley Ashenfelter, Robert M. Solow and Stanley Fischer (1999). "Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication". Journal of Economic Education 30 (4): 352-363. JSTOR: SICI 0022-0485%28199923%2930%3A4%3C352%3AS%22AFRO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y.
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