Discover Paul Samuelson's groundbreaking economic theories, Nobel-winning contributions, and his lasting impact on microeconomics and macroeconomics.

In 1932, when he had not yet finished high school, a 16-year-old Paul A. Samuelson wandered into a college lecture on overpopulation and scarcity. He was instantly enthralled by the language of ...

MIT economist Paul A. Samuelson, the Nobel laureate whose mathematical analysis provided the foundation on which modern economics is built and whose textbook influenced generations of students, died ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economist Paul Samuelson, 94, who won a Nobel Prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, advised presidents since John F. Kennedy on tax policy and wrote a textbook read by ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Paul Krugman says he learned something new at yesterday’s MIT memorial service for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BELMONT, Mass. — Economist Paul Samuelson, 94, who won a Nobel for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, advised presidents since John F.