doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students article_title name alma_mater
ed witte gainesville , florida 17 august 2011 new york city , new york american economics , history of economic thought professor of economics , michigan state university 14 september 1933 history of economic thought , methodology of economics steve medema , marianne f. johnson warren samuels
 warren samuels ph.d. in economics , university of wisconsin-madison
warren samuels

warren joseph samuels -lrb- september 14 , 1933 -- august 17 , 2011 -rrb- was an american economist and historian of economic thought .
he received a bba from university of miami , miami , fl and obtained his ph.d. from university of wisconsin -- madison .
after holding academic posts in the university of missouri , georgia state university , atlanta , and university of miami , he was appointed professor of economics in michigan state university in 1968 , where he stayed until his retirement in 1998 .
warren samuels made contributions to the history of economic thought and the methodology 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 '' .
he described himself as `` a self-professed institutionalist -lrb- in a blend of several other schools -rrb- . ''
samuels received the distinguished faculty award from michigan state university .
he was a founding member of the history of economics society , recipient of the veblen-commons award from the association for evolutionary economics and longtime editor of its `` journal of economic issues '' .
