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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Paul Solman: All week, we’ve been posting transcripts of past conversations with the late economist Paul Samuelson. Below, Samuelson on calculating worth. SOLMAN: Is an auction a good way to figure ...

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 ...