Over the weekend came word of the death at age 94 of Paul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize for his work in economics and author of one of the most enduring college textbooks on the ...

Our economics correspondent Paul Solman knew Samuelson and interviewed him at MIT many times over the years. When I spoke with Paul earlier today, he recalled how Samuelson continued to work in recent ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Paul Samuelson, whose work helped form the basis of modern economics, died on Sunday in his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He was 94. His death was announced ...

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

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson died Sunday at the age of 94. Samuelson was a public intellectual, author of a fundamental economics textbook, and an inspiration to generations of ...

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 ...

For decades, the orthodox view on free trade has been strong and simple: countries do what they do best, and everyone ends up a winner. But now, an economist who literally wrote the book on economics ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson died Sunday at his home in Belmont. He was 94. Samuelson won the Nobel in 1970 for his revolutionary application of mathematical analysis to economics. He ...

Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

I've spent the last six months, off and on, trying to interview Paul Samuelson. Samuelson has a long list of accomplishments -- A John Bates Clark Medal, a Nobel Prize -- that I won't try to recap ...

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 by ...