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, ...

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 ...

In the early sixties, Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Samuelson sat down in the cafeteria at MIT and had a short conversation that soon became legendary in economic circles. He asked his lunch ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, professor Paul Samuelson was arguably America’s preeminent economist. His textbook for introductory economics was used at colleges and universities across the United States. He ...

Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson once said the stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions. He probably meant not to take warning signs from the stock market too seriously on recession ...

Update: You can read economics correspondent Paul Solman's reflections on Samuelson's life and work here on Making Sen$e. The world lost one of the giants in modern ...