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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 ...
May 10, 2024 · 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 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.
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.
Samuelson died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass, at the age of 94. He was one of the nation's most distinguished economists, and in 1970 became the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, not long before Friedman won his Nobel in 1976.
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.
