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, ...

Professor Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis has been the bestselling college economics textbook for more than fifty years. By signing up, you ...

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 ...

Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis is perhaps the most classic textbook in introductory undergraduate economics. It has reportedly sold over four million copies and is the ...

shape tax policy in the Kennedy administration and wrote a textbook read by millions of college students, died Sunday. He was 94. Samuelson, who taught for decades at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Economist Paul Samuelson, 94, who won a Nobel Prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, advised presidents since John F. Kennedy on tax policy and wrote a textbook read by ...

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 ...

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott (W. W. Norton, 385 pp., $28.95) Macroeconomics has come a long way in the last century. We’ve learned a lot about the forces ...