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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 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 ...
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 ...
Paul Samuelson, AB'35, found his calling in economics at the University of Chicago during the height of the Great Depression and went on to transform the field with new techniques of rigorous analysis ...
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 ...
The American Economist is a leading refereed journal published by the International Honor Society in Economics – Omicron Delta Epsilon – for the enhancement of research in economics. It publishes ...
History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2010), pp. 105-119 (15 pages) Modern attributions to Adam Smith's use of the Invisible-Hand metaphor are at variance with Smith's teachings on the use and ...
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 ...
From The Wall Street Journal: Paul A. Samuelson, whose analytical work laid the foundation for modern economics, died Sunday. He was 94. “Paul Samuelson was both a path-breaking and prolific economic ...
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 ...
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 ...