For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his ...

He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in ...

WASHINGTON — OK, I should have headlined it, "My favorite economics books of 2016." There surely are many good books that I missed. Still, the four below share certain appealing characteristics. They ...

Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson, Volume 1—Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948. By Roger Backhouse. Oxford University Press; 760 pages; $34.95 and £22.99. IN 1940, Paul Samuelson needed an ...

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 ...

Discover Paul Samuelson's groundbreaking economic theories, Nobel-winning contributions, and his lasting impact on microeconomics and macroeconomics.