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 ...

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 ...

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 ...