Paul Samuelson
Economist, Academic
1915 – 2009
Who was Paul Samuelson?
Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". Economic historian Randall E. Parker calls him the "Father of Modern Economics", and The New York Times considered him to be the "foremost academic economist of the 20th century".
He was author of the largest-selling economics textbook of all time: Economics: An Introductory Analysis, first published in 1948. It was the second American textbook to explain the principles of Keynesian economics and how to think about economics, and the first one to be successful, and is now in its 19th edition, having sold nearly 4 million copies in 40 languages. James Poterba, former head of MIT's Department of Economics, noted that by his book, Samuelson "leaves an immense legacy, as a researcher and a teacher, as one of the giants on whose shoulders every contemporary economist stands".
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- Born
- May 15, 1915
Gary - Also known as
- Paul A. Samuelson
- Paul Anthony Samuelson
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago
Economics
( - 1935) - PhD, Harvard University
Economics
( - 1941)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Gary
(1915/05/15 - ) - Belmont
( - 2009/12/13)
- Gary
- Died
- Dec 13, 2009
Belmont
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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