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 ...

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 ...