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 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 ...

Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis is perhaps the most classic textbook in introductory undergraduate economics. It has reportedly sold over four million copies and is the ...

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 ...

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 ...