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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 by the ...

Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you had to name the two most influential economists of the postwar decades, you would not go far wrong if ...

The late economist Paul Samuelson’s best-selling textbook, “Economics,” published in 1948, defined the landscape for a generation of students who became politicians, parents, teachers, voters, ...