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" ...

Over the weekend came word of the death at age 94 of Paul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize for his work in economics and author of one of the most enduring college textbooks on the ...

Paul Solman: A final excerpt from my interview with Paul Samuelson about a decade ago. For this Christmas Day edition of Business Desk, Samuelson on where behavior and economics intersect. SOLMAN: How ...

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, ...

Until the mid-20th century, the field of economics was not bound by mathematical principles and theorems. Those studying it engaged more in verbal discussions and hypotheses based on diagrammatic ...

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 ...

Boston - Paul Samuelson, whose work helped form the basis of modern economics, died on Sunday in his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He was 94. His death was announced by ...

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 ...

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 ...