Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson died Sunday at the age of 94. Samuelson was a public intellectual, author of a fundamental economics textbook, and an inspiration to generations of ...

The world lost one of the giants in modern economics Sunday when Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson died at his home in Belmont, Mass., at the age of 94. Samuelson became the first American to win a Nobel ...

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 ...

Paul A. Samuelson, whose analytical work laid the foundation for modern economics, died Sunday. He was 94. Actively publishing into the 2000s, Mr. Samuelson's career in economics spanned eight decades ...

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, ...

Over the weekend came word of the death at age 94 of Paul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize for his work in economics and author of one of the most enduring college textbooks on the ...

Paul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel prize in economics, author of a landmark college textbook on the subject and a presidential adviser who helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy ...

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 ...

Paul Krugman Op-Ed says current assessments of US economy are confusing; says this kind of confusion typically happens when economy is at turning point, when economic expansion is about to turn into ...

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 ...

It turns out investors probably should heed those national park signs warning hikers to "Beware of Bears." In a 1966 Newsweek article, the eminent economist Paul Samuelson famously quipped that the ...

Samuelson taught for decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President Obama’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, is his nephew. In 1970, Samuelson became just the second ...