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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics and the author of one of the most-ubiquitous college textbooks ever, was "one of the greatest teachers that economics has ever known" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...