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Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in ...
Paul Samuelson (born May 15, 1915, Gary, Indiana, U.S.—died December 13, 2009, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970 for his fundamental contributions to nearly all branches of economic theory.
Confronted by contradictions, overlaps, and fallacies in the classical language of economics, he sought unification – and clarification – in mathematics. In his first major work, Foundations of Economic Analysis, published in 1947, he demonstrated that this approach worked.
Dec 13, 2009 · Paul A. Samuelson. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970. Born: 15 May 1915, Gary, IN, USA. Died: 13 December 2009, Belmont, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dec 13, 2009 · MIT economist Paul A. Samuelson, the Nobel laureate whose mathematical analysis provided the foundation on which modern economics is built and whose textbook influenced generations of students, died today at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.
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.
Dec 14, 2009 · Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.