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 read ...

On Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott. The impact of Samuelson’s primer on economic thinking was nicely captured by Paul Krugman’s tribute to it in a 2011 essay, ...

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 ...

The late economist Paul Samuelson’s best-selling textbook, “Economics,” published in 1948, defined the landscape for a generation of students who became politicians, parents, teachers, voters, ...