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 read ...

Paul Solman reflects on the life and work of economist Paul Samuelson, who died Sunday at the age of 94. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Paul Samuelson, America's first ...

On Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott. The impact of Samuelson’s primer on economic thinking was nicely captured by Paul Krugman’s tribute to it in a 2011 essay, ...

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 ...

LAST week, the doyen of mainstream economics and its greatest proselytiser, Paul Samuelson, died. It can be safely said that Samuelson taught more people economics than anyone else. This was simply ...

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 ...

Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis is perhaps the most classic textbook in introductory undergraduate economics. It has reportedly sold over four million copies and is the ...