Discover Paul Samuelson's groundbreaking economic theories, Nobel-winning contributions, and his lasting impact on microeconomics and macroeconomics.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In terms of economic philosophy, Professor Samuelson calls himself "a 'modern' economist in the right wing of the Democratic New Deal economists. He was born in Gary, Indiana, in 1915. He received the ...

Dr. Paul Samuelson, 55-year-old American Jewish professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was named today in Stockholm as the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics ...

For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his classically conservative views.

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 ...

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, ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - 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 ...