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 ...

Sixty-one years after his hallmark book “Economics: An Introductory Analysis” was first published, Paul A. Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics, died in his home on Sunday ...

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 ...

Paul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics, the author of a landmark college textbook on the subject and a presidential advisor who helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy ...