Paul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics, the author of a landmark college textbook on the subject and a presidential advisor who helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy ...

Samuelson made such diverse contributions to his field – ranging from welfare economics, theories of consumption, prices, capital accumulation, economic growth, public goods, finance and international ...

Nobel-winning American economist Paul A. Samuelson died Sunday, spurring words of praise and fond remembrance from across the spectrum. Economic commentary is often sharply divided and hotly disputed, ...

Mr. Samuelson attracted a brilliant roster of economists to teach or study at the university, among them Mr. Solow as well as others who would go on to become Nobel laureates like George A. Akerlof, ...

Samuelson taught for decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President Obama’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, is his nephew. In 1970, Samuelson became just the second ...

Following up on Peter Suderman's noting economics textbook legend Paul Samuleson's death, the very interested might want to check out libertarian economist and economics historian Mark Skousen, ...

Paul Samuelson, who died yesterday, aged 94, was probably the most influential American economist of the 20th century. Certainly, no thinker did more to turn economics from a scattered selection of ...

NEW YORK -- Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy administration and wrote a textbook ...

Paul Solman: A few years ago, my father, the artist Joseph Solman, and I had a meal with Paul and Risha Samuelson at the house of mutual friends. My dad was in his ridiculously hardy ’90s at the time; ...

Paul Krugman Op-Ed says current assessments of US economy are confusing; says this kind of confusion typically happens when economy is at turning point, when economic expansion is about to turn into ...

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