Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las ...
Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years as an economics columnist for The Washington ...
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 ...
He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in reader-friendly vernacular. By Michael S. Rosenwald Robert J. Samuelson, an ...
In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...
Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott (W. W. Norton, 385 pp., $28.95) Macroeconomics has come a long way in the last century. We’ve learned a lot about the forces ...
Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years as an economics columnist for The Washington ...