The American economist Paul Anthony Samuelson (born 1915) was the most distinguished of the economists who entered the profession during and after the mid-1930s--the "Keynesian generation." He was frequently referred to as the last of the generalists....

The leading post-war US economist who graduated from the Universities of Chicago and Harvard. He was fortunate in having as mentors men as distinguished as KNIGHT, SCHUMPETER, VINER, LEONTIEF and HANSEN. Throughout his academic career he has been at...

Paul Anthony Samuelson (born May 15, 1915) is an American neoclassical economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of Economic...

Introduction It has been well said that Paul A. Samuelson is the last great general economist--never again will any one person make such foundational contributions to so many distinct areas of economics. His profound theoretical contributions over nearly seven decades of published...

Abstract: Immiserizing growth is a long-term phenomenon that occurs when the gain in a country's social welfare arising from economic growth is more than off-set by the loss in such welfare associated with an adverse shift in the terms of trade. In one...