Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

Paul Solman: More excerpts today from an interview I did with economist Paul Samuelson nearly a decade ago. Today, his thoughts on whether economics is a science and where math fits in the discipline.

Paul Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics, has died. Samuelson, who received his Nobel Prize in 1970, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94. The Massachusetts ...

In 1932, when he had not yet finished high school, a 16-year-old Paul A. Samuelson wandered into a college lecture on overpopulation and scarcity. He was instantly enthralled by the language of ...