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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago,Paul A. Samuelson was a household name. The first American Nobel laureate in economics, he wrote a regular column for Newsweek (alternating with Milton Friedman) and was widely ...

Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics and the author of one of the most-ubiquitous college textbooks ever, was "one of the greatest teachers that economics has ever known" ...