Samuel Hollander, (born April 6, 1937) is a British/ Canadian/ Israeli economist. Born in London, he received a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1959. In 1961 he received an AM and a Ph.D. in 1963 from Princeton University. He started with the University of Toronto becoming an Assistant Professor (1963–1966), Associate Professor (1966–1970), Professor (1970–1984), University Professor (1984–1998), and upon his retirement in 1998, University Professor Emeritus. Since 2000 he has been a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He became a citizen of Canada in 1967 and of Israel in 2000. Samuel Hollander is one of the most influential and controversial living authors on

History of Economic Thought History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

, especially on

classical economics Classical economics, classical political economy, or Smithian economics is a school of thought in political economy that flourished, primarily in Britain, in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th century. Its main thinkers are held to be Adam Smith ...

. His monumental studies of

Adam Smith Adam Smith (baptized 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics"——— ...

, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and

John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to ...

have provoked some sharp reactions. Especially his "new view" of David Ricardo as a direct predecessor of later neo-classical economists such as Marshall and Walras has triggered heated debates. Apart from many critics he has also enjoyed the support of a considerable number of prominent fellow economists. His work was highly recommended by the late Lord Robbins, who says "... he really surpasses all previous historians of economic thought, especially on Ricardo" (Robbins, 1998, p. 143).

Most important publications

# ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/I The Economics of Adam Smith'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and London: Heinemann), 1973, x + 350. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/II The Economics of David Ricardo'' (Toronto: UTP and London: Heinemann), 1979, xiv + 759. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/III The Economics of John Stuart Mill'' (Toronto: UTP and Oxford: Blackwell), 1985: Volume I, Theory and Method, xx + 481. Volume II, Political Economy, 482-1030. # ''Classical Economics'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987; Toronto: UTP, 1992), x + 485. # ''Collected Essays/I Ricardo. The ‘New View’'' (London and New York: Routledge), 1995, xiv + 369. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/IV The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus'' (Toronto: UTP), 1997, xviii + 1045. # ''Collected Essays/II The Literature of Political Economy'' (London and New York: Routledge), 1998, xv + 410. # ''Collected Essays/III John Stuart Mill on Economic Theory and Method'' (London and New York: Routledge), 2000, xiii + 299. # ''Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics: the British Connection in French Classicism'' (London and New York: Routledge), 2005, xiii + 322. # ''Studies in Classical Political Economy/V. The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)'' (Cambridge University Press), 2008, 552. # ''Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)'' (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, April 2011)

Honours

* In 1976 he was made a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

. * In 1998 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. * In 1999 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society
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References

* Official website: http://www.samuel-hollander.com/ *

Autobiographical memoir from the book ''Collected Essays/II The Literature of Political Economy'' (1998)

External links

Samuel Hollander archival papers
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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
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