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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW 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 textbook ...