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 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 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 ...

Everything else is just pictures and talk." Our economics correspondent Paul Solman knew Samuelson and interviewed him at MIT many times over the years. When I spoke with Paul earlier today, he ...

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 ...

Dr. Paul Samuelson, 55-year-old American Jewish professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was named today in Stockholm as the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics ...

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 ...

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 ...