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Samuel Hollander | |
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שמואל הולנדר | |
| Born | 6 April 1937 London, England |
| Education | London School of Economics Princeton University |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Workplaces | University of Toronto Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| Thesis | The Sources of Increased Efficiency: A Case Study of Du Pont Rayon Manufacturing Plants (1963) |
| Fritz Machlup | |
Samuel Hollander, OC FRSC (Hebrew: שמואל הולנדר; born 6 April 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, followed by an A.M. degree from Princeton University in 1961. In 1963, he completed his Princeton Ph.D. dissertation on industrial efficiency in rayon production at DuPont, having worked under the supervision of Fritz Machlup.
He spent his academic career at 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. In 2000, he took up the position of 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 scholars of the history of economic thought, and has specialized in classical economics. He has published monumental studies of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Especially his "new view" of David Ricardo as a direct predecessor of neo-classical economists such as Alfred Marshall and Léon Walras triggered debates, but won over a number of prominent fellow economists (including Martin Bronfenbrenner). His work was recommended by Lionel Robbins who wrote, "... he really surpasses all previous historians of economic thought, especially on Ricardo" (Robbins, 1998, p. 143).
