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: We continue this week with excerpts from an interview I did with Paul Samuelson in his office almost a decade ago, just after the dot.com collapse in the year 2000. I was helping make a ...

Update: You can read economics correspondent Paul Solman’s reflections on Samuelson’s life and work here on Making Sen$e. The world lost one of the giants in ...

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, ...

Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson, Volume 1—Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948. By Roger Backhouse. Oxford University Press; 760 pages; $34.95 and £22.99. IN 1940, Paul Samuelson needed an ...

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, ...

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las ...