Warren Joseph Samuels (September 14, 1933 – August 17, 2011^[1]) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. He received a BBA fromUniversity of Miami, Miami, FL and obtained his Ph.D. fromUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. After holding academic posts in theUniversity of Missouri,Georgia State University, Atlanta, andUniversity of Miami, he was appointed Professor of Economics inMichigan State University in 1968, where he stayed until his retirement in 1998.

Warren Samuels made contributions to thehistory of economic thought and themethodology of economics. His work was inspired primarily by his "interest in generating greater clarity as to the economic role of government both in the history of economic thought and in contemporary economics".^[2] He described himself as "a self-professedinstitutionalist (in a blend of several other schools)."^[3]

Samuels received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University. He was a founding member of theHistory of Economics Society, recipient of theVeblen-Commons Award from theAssociation for Evolutionary Economics and longtime editor of itsJournal of Economic Issues.

• Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. 2011.
• Essays on the History of Economics (with Willie Henderson, Kirk Johnson, and Marianne Johnson, 2004.
• Warren J. Samuels (1 January 2002).Economics, Governance and Law: Essays on Theory and Policy. Elgar.ISBN 978-1-84064-856-0.
• The Economy as a Process of Valuation (with Steven G. Medema and A. Allan Schmid), 1997.
• Economic Thought and Discourse in the Twentieth Century (with Jeff Biddle and Thomas Patchak-Schuster), 1993.
• Gardiner C. Means: Institutionalist and Post-Keynesian (with Steven G. Medema), 1990.
• Pareto on Policy, 1974.
• The Classical Theory of Economic Policy, 1966.

• M. Blaug (ed.) -Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999.
• Ross Emmett -BiographyArchived 2012-04-25 at theWayback Machine

• Warren J. Samuels' Homepage at Michigan State University
• "Warren Samuels".EconPapers.
• "Warren Samuels".JSTOR.

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