Collected scientific papers of Paul A. Samuelson vol.1

These two volumes contain virtually all of Professor Paul A. Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964. These articles have been collected from the economic journals, Festschrifts, and several books on current economic problems. A few of the articles were unpublished RAND Memoranda, and others were lectures.

The arrangement by topics has not been easy; some of the articles, or chapters, properly belong in several sections; some might be put most properly in sections of their own. A few of the final decisions had to be made somewhat arbitrarily. The parts are arranged into books of closely related subjects. Within the parts, the articles are arranged chronologically, except where several articles were very closely tied together. For instance, the 1963 article on the "Gains from International Trade Once Again" immediately follows the 1939 article "The Gains from International Trade." I hope that this ar rangement will make the book more useful to the reader than a strictly chronological ordering. For those who prefer the latter, how ever, I have included in the acknowledgments a chronological list of the articles.