Credit Card and Financial News

An up-to-date look at the Financial World

13 Dec

Economist Samuelson, Nobel laureate, dead at 94 (AP)

Posted in business on 13.12.09

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 1998 file photo, Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson listens to remarks during a program in Chicago to mark the 50th year and the 16th edition of his book 'Economics.' Samuelson, one of the leading economists of the 20th century, died Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94. (AP Photo/Daniel Lippitt, File)AP – Economist Paul Samuelson, who won a Nobel prize for his effort to bring mathematical analysis into economics, helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy administration and wrote a textbook read by millions of college students, died Sunday. He was 94.



Related Blogs

tags:

No Comments »