Paul Samuelson, America’s first Nobel laureate in economics, died this weekend at age 94. In 2003, Samuelson wrote a short essay called How I Became an Economist. What caught my eye is the last line: “Always, I have been overpaid to do what has been pure fun.” We should all be lucky enough to achieve that.
To give you a better feel for Samuelson’s contributions to economics, I have included an NPR interview with Paul Krugman, another American recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics. You can listen below.
Critical review of The Economics by Samuelson and Nordhaus:
http://blog.daniyar.info/2010/10/04/some-critical-notes-on-the-eighteenth-edition-of-economics-by-paul-samuelson-and-william-nordhaus.aspx
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