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 ...

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 Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics, the author of a landmark college textbook on the subject and a presidential advisor who helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy ...

MIT economist Paul A. Samuelson, the Nobel laureate whose mathematical analysis provided the foundation on which modern economics is built and whose textbook influenced generations of students, died ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson died Sunday at his home in Belmont. He was 94. Samuelson won the Nobel in 1970 for his revolutionary application of mathematical analysis to economics. He ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Paul Krugman says he learned something new at yesterday’s MIT memorial service for ...

Our economics correspondent Paul Solman knew Samuelson and interviewed him at MIT many times over the years. When I spoke with Paul earlier today, he recalled how Samuelson continued to work in recent ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson died Sunday at the age of 94. Samuelson was a public intellectual, author of a fundamental economics textbook, and an inspiration to generations of ...

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 by ...

NEW YORKNEW 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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BELMONT, Mass. — Economist Paul Samuelson, 94, who won a Nobel for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, advised presidents since John F.