With great sadness, STOREP reports that Warren Samuels passed away August 17 at home in Gainesville, Florida. Warren was a highly respected and extensively published historian of economic thought, economic methodologist, and expert on the economic role of government. He was a long-time member of the Association for Social Economics, a member of the editorial board of the Review of Social Economy, president of the ASE in 1988, and a 1997 Divine Award recipient. Warren Samuels was author or co-authorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif of many books and scholarly papers, edited or co-edited a tremendous number of volumes, including a considerable amount of unpublished, archival materials, edited or co-edited Journal of Economic Issues, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, and the Journal of Income Distribution, was on the editorial boards of 22 journals, and edited or co-edited many book series. For the last number of years he worked at compiling and organizing every reference and interpretation of the invisible hand concept. Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misguided Concept in Economics will appear with Cambridge University Press in September. Warren will be remembered for his generosity and kindness towards those with whom he worked and interacted, for his tolerance, humanity, and concern for others, and for his intellectuality, openness, honesty, and his commitment to pluralism in economics. Many individuals and organizations benefited from his support, and the economics profession was fortunate to count him a member.
Website: https://www.msu.edu/~ec/faculty/samuels/samuels.htm