Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, has written a sequel. Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market is a joint biography of the lives and work ...

Paul Samuelson started his studies in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, when “economics was the most exciting thing in the world.” Already a well-known academic, he helped build the ...

Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson, Volume 1—Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948. By Roger Backhouse. Oxford University Press; 760 pages; $34.95 and £22.99. IN 1940, Paul Samuelson needed an ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...

Paul Samuelson:AMERICA DIVIDES its economists into two camps: the monetarists hailing from the University of Chicago; and the Keynesian-leaning economists from the colleges on the Pacific and Atlantic ...

Paul Samuelson, AB'35, found his calling in economics at the University of Chicago during the height of the Great Depression and went on to transform the field with new techniques of rigorous analysis ...

Update: You can read economics correspondent Paul Solman’s reflections on Samuelson’s life and work here on Making Sen$e. The world lost one of the giants in ...