Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott (W. W. Norton, 385 pp., $28.95) Macroeconomics has come a long way in the last century. We’ve learned a lot about the forces ...

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 ...

In 1970, Paul Samuelson became the first American awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The honor came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist because he had “simply ...

Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis is perhaps the most classic textbook in introductory undergraduate economics. It has reportedly sold over four million copies and is the ...