Editing Paul Samuelson

{{short description|American economist (1915–2009)}}
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{{Infobox economist
| image             = Paul A. Samuelson, economist, edited.jpg 
| caption           = Samuelson between 1970 and 1975
| birth_name        = Paul Anthony Samuelson
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1915|5|15}}
| birth_place       = [[Gary, Indiana]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2009|12|13|1915|5|15}}
| death_place       = [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| education         = [[University of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br/>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| spouse            = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Marion Crawford|1938|1978|end=died}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Marion Crawford Samuelson |journal=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 February 1978 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/15/archives/marion-crawford-samuelson.html |accessdate= 1 October 2023}}</ref>
* {{marriage|Risha Clay|1981|<!-- Omission per Template:Marriage instructions -->}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Risha Clay Samuelson: Obituary |journal=The Boston Globe |date=4 June 2019 |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/risha-samuelson-obituary?id=1869420}}</ref>}}
| institution       = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| field             = [[Macroeconomics]]
| school_tradition  = [[Neo-Keynesian economics]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Joseph Schumpeter]]<br>[[Wassily Leontief]]
| doctoral_students = [[Lawrence Klein]]<ref>{{Google books |id=gyReAgAAQBAJ |title=Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia |page=361}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=De Vroey |first1=Michel |last2=Malgrange |first2=Pierre |title=From ''The Keynesian Revolution'' to the Klein–Goldberger model: Klein and the Dynamization of Keynesian Theory |journal=History of Economic Ideas |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=113–36 |year=2012 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46473601}}</ref><br>[[Robert C. Merton]]<ref name="Merton 1970"/>
| influences        = [[John Maynard Keynes|Keynes]]{{•}} [[Joseph Schumpeter|Schumpeter]]{{•}} [[Wassily Leontief|Leontief]]{{•}} [[Gottfried Haberler|Haberler]]{{•}} [[Alvin Hansen|Hansen]]{{•}} [[Edwin Bidwell Wilson|Wilson]]{{•}} [[Knut Wicksell|Wicksell]]{{•}} [[Erik Lindahl|Lindahl]]
| contributions     = [[Neoclassical synthesis]]<br>[[Mathematical economics]]<br>[[Economic methodology]]<br />[[Revealed preference]]<br>[[International trade]]<br>[[Economic growth]]<br>[[Public goods]]
| awards            = [[John Bates Clark Medal]] (1947)<br />[[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1970)<br>[[National Medal of Science]] (1996)
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| repec_id          = psa57
| signature         = Paul_Samuelson_Signature_from_the_Goldman_Collection.png
}}
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'''Paul Anthony Samuelson''' (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]. When awarding the prize in 1970, the [[Swedish Royal Academies]] stated that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory".<ref name="MIT">{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/obit-samuelson-1213.html|title=Nobel-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson dies at age 94|work=MIT News|last=Frost|first=Greg|date=December 13, 2009}} "In a career that spanned seven decades, he transformed his field, influenced millions of students and turned MIT into an economics powerhouse"</ref> 

Samuelson was one of the most influential economists of the latter half of the 20th century.<ref name="Econ2009">[http://www.economist.com/node/15127616 "Paul Samuelson: The last of the great general economists died on December 13th, aged 94"], ''[[The Economist]]'', December 17, 2009</ref><ref name="Dixit">{{cite journal |last1=Dixit |first1=Avinash |title=Paul Samuelson's Legacy |journal=Annual Review of Economics |date=1 September 2012 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=1–31 |doi=10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-110957 |language=en |issn=1941-1383|doi-access= }}</ref> In 1996, he was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]].<ref name="MIT" /> Samuelson considered [[mathematics]] to be the "natural language" for economists and contributed significantly to the mathematical foundations of economics with his book ''[[Foundations of Economic Analysis]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Solow|first=Robert|date=2010|title=On Paul Samuelson|journal=Challenge|volume=53|issue=2|pages=113–116|doi=10.2753/0577-5132530207|s2cid=155020549}}</ref> He was author of the best-selling economics textbook of all time: ''[[Economics: An Introductory Analysis]]'', first published in 1948.<ref name="Mark">{{cite journal |last=Skousken |first=Mark |title=The Perseverance of Paul Samuelson's Economics |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |volume=11 |issue=2 |date=Spring 1997 |pages=137–152 |doi=10.1257/jep.11.2.137 |doi-access=free }}</ref> It was the second American textbook that attempted to explain the principles of [[Keynesian economics]]. 

Samuelson served as an advisor to President [[John F. Kennedy]] and President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], and was a consultant to the [[United States Treasury]], the Bureau of the Budget and the President's [[Council of Economic Advisers]]. Samuelson wrote a weekly column for ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine along with [[Chicago school (economics)|Chicago School]] economist [[Milton Friedman]], where they represented opposing sides: Samuelson, as a self described "Cafeteria Keynesian",<ref name="Econ2009" /> claimed taking the Keynesian perspective but only accepting what he felt was good in it.<ref name="Econ2009" /> By contrast, Friedman represented the [[Monetarism|monetarist]] perspective.<ref name="Szenberg">{{cite book |last1=Szenberg |first1=Michael |author-link=Michael Szenberg|last2=Gottesman |first2=Aron A. |last3=Ramrattan |first3=lall |title=Paul Samuelson: On Being an Economist |location=New York |publisher=Jorge Pinto Books |year=2005 |page=18 |isbn=978-0-9742615-3-9 }}</ref> Together with [[Henry Wallich]], their 1967 columns earned the magazine a [[Gerald Loeb Special Award]] in 1968.<ref name="Devaney 1968 May 22" />

==Biography==
[[File:Paul Samuelson.jpg|right|thumb|Samuelson in 1997]]
Samuelson was born in [[Gary, Indiana]], on May 15, 1915, to Frank Samuelson, a [[pharmacy|pharmacist]], and Ella {{née}}} Lipton. His family, he later said, was "made up of upwardly mobile [[Jewish]] immigrants from [[Poland]] who had prospered considerably in [[World War&nbsp;I]], because Gary was a brand new steel-town when my family went there".<ref name="NYTs 2009 Dec 13" /> In 1923, Samuelson moved to Chicago where he graduated from Hyde Park High School (now [[Hyde Park Career Academy]]).

Samuelson attended the [[University of Chicago]] as an undergraduate, earning a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1935. He said he was born as an economist at 8:00&nbsp;am on January 2, 1932, in the University of Chicago classroom.<ref name="Econ2009" /> The lecture mentioned as the cause was on the British economist [[Thomas Robert Malthus|Thomas Malthus]], who most famously studied population growth and its effects.<ref name="NYTs 2009 Dec 13" /> Samuelson felt there was a dissonance between [[neoclassical economics]] and the way the system seemed to behave; he said [[Henry Calvert Simons|Henry Simons]] and [[Frank Knight]] were a big influence on him.<ref name="Parker 2002" /> He next completed his [[Master of Arts]] degree in 1936, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in 1941 at [[Harvard University]]. He won the David A. Wells prize in 1941 for writing the best doctoral dissertation at Harvard University in economics, for a thesis titled "Foundations of Analytical Economics", which later turned into ''[[Foundations of Economic Analysis]]''. As a graduate student at Harvard, Samuelson studied economics under [[Joseph Schumpeter]], [[Wassily Leontief]], [[Gottfried Haberler]], and the "American Keynes" [[Alvin Hansen]].

Samuelson moved to MIT as an assistant professor in 1940 and remained there until his death.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1215/00182702-2716118| title = Paul A. Samuelson's Move to MIT| journal = History of Political Economy| volume = 46| page = 60| year = 2014| last1 = Backhouse | first1 = R. E.}}</ref> Samuelson's biographer argues that a central reason for Samuelson's move from Harvard to MIT was the anti-Semitism that was famously widespread at Harvard at the time. In a 1989 letter to his friend [[Henry Rosovsky]], Samuelson blamed anti-Semitism in Harvard economics above all on chair Harold Burbank, as well as on [[Edward Chamberlin]], [[John Henry Williams (economist)|John H. Williams]], [[John D. Black]], and Leonard Crum.<ref name="Backhouse">{{cite book |last1=Backhouse |first1=Roger |title=Founder of Modern Economics: Paul Samuelson, vol. 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915–1948 |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780190664091 |pages=300–307}}</ref>

Samuelson's family included many well-known economists, including brother [[Robert Summers (economist)|Robert Summers]], sister-in-law [[Anita Summers]], brother-in-law [[Kenneth Arrow]] and nephew [[Larry Summers]].

During his seven decades as an economist, Samuelson's professional positions included:
* Assistant professor of economics at MIT, 1940; associate professor, 1944.
* Member of the Radiation Laboratory 1944–45.
* Professor of international economic relations (part-time) at the [[Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy]] in 1945.
* Guggenheim Fellowship from 1948 to 1949
* Professor of economics at MIT beginning in 1947 and [[List of Institute Professors|Institute Professor]] beginning in 1962.
* Vernon F. Taylor Visiting Distinguished Professor at [[Trinity University (Texas)]] in spring 1989.

===Death===
Samuelson died after a brief illness on December 13, 2009, at the age of 94.<ref name="Reuters">{{cite news | title = Nobel economics laureate Samuelson died at 94 | url = https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BC15620091213 | publisher = Reuters | date=December 14, 2006}}
</ref> His death was announced by the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref name="NYTs 2009 Dec 13" /> [[James M. Poterba]], an economics professor at MIT and the president of the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]], commented that Samuelson "leaves an immense legacy, as a researcher and a teacher, as one of the giants on whose shoulders every contemporary economist stands".<ref name="Reuters" /> [[Susan Hockfield]], the president of MIT, said that Samuelson "transformed everything he touched: the theoretical foundations of his field, the way economics was taught around the world, the ethos and stature of his department, the investment practices of MIT, and the lives of his colleagues and students".<ref name="revo">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6806318/Economics-revolutionary-Paul-Samuelson-dies-aged-94.html "Economics revolutionary Paul Samuelson dies aged 94"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', December 14, 2009</ref> His second wife died in 2019.

==Fields of interest==
As professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Samuelson worked in many fields, including:<ref>Fischer, Stanley. "Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915–2009)". ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics''. Third Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.</ref>
* [[Consumer theory]], where he pioneered the [[revealed preference]] approach, which is a method by which one can discern a consumer's [[utility function]], by observing their behavior. Rather than postulate a [[utility function]] or a preference ordering, Samuelson imposed conditions directly on the choices made by individuals – their preferences as revealed by their choices.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=Consumption Theory in Terms of Revealed Preference |journal=Economica |date=1948 |volume=15 |issue=60 |pages=243–253 |doi=10.2307/2549561 |jstor=2549561 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2549561 |issn=0013-0427|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Welfare economics]] and [[public finance]] theory, in which he popularised the [[Lindahl–Bowen–Samuelson conditions]] (criteria for deciding whether an action will improve welfare) and demonstrated in 1950 the insufficiency of a national-income index to reveal which of two social options was uniformly outside the other's (feasible) [[social welfare function#Bergson–Samuelson social welfare function|possibility function]], and he is particularly known for his work on determining the [[Allocative efficiency|optimal allocation]] of resources in the presence of both [[Public good (economics)|public good]]s and [[private good]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=Evaluation of Real National Income |journal=Oxford Economic Papers |date=1950 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–29 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041383 |url=https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/2/1/1/2360396 |issn=0030-7653|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure |journal=The Review of Economics and Statistics |date=1954 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=387–389 |doi=10.2307/1925895 |jstor=1925895 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1925895 |issn=0034-6535|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Capital (economics)|Capital theory]], where he is known for 1958 consumption loans model and a variety of [[Turnpike theory|turnpike theorems]] and involved in [[Cambridge capital controversy]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=Parable and Realism in Capital Theory: The Surrogate Production Function |journal=The Review of Economic Studies |date=June 1962 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=193–206 |doi=10.2307/2295954 |jstor=2295954 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2295954 |issn=0034-6527|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=P. A. |title=The periodic turnpike theorem |journal=Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications |date=1 January 1976 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=3–13 |doi=10.1016/0362-546X(76)90004-3 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/0362-546X(76)90004-3 |issn=0362-546X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Finance]] theory, in which he is known for the [[random walk hypothesis]] and [[efficient-market hypothesis]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=Proof That Properly Anticipated Prices Fluctuate Randomly |journal=Industrial Management Review |date=Spring 1965 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=41–49 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=P. A. |title=The Fundamental Approximation Theorem of Portfolio Analysis in terms of Means, Variances and Higher Moments |journal=The Review of Economic Studies |date=1 October 1970 |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=537–542 |doi=10.2307/2296483 |jstor=2296483 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2296483 |language=en |issn=0034-6527|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=Challenge to Judgment |journal=The Journal of Portfolio Management |date=31 October 1974 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=17–19 |doi=10.3905/jpm.1974.408496}}</ref>
* [[International economics]], where he influenced the development of two important international trade models: the [[Balassa–Samuelson effect]], and the [[Heckscher–Ohlin model]] (with the [[Stolper–Samuelson theorem]]).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stolper |first1=W. F. |last2=Samuelson |first2=P. A. |title=Protection and Real Wages |journal=The Review of Economic Studies |date=1 November 1941 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=58–73 |doi=10.2307/2967638 |jstor=2967638 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2967638 |issn=0034-6527|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Samuelson |first=P. A. |year=1964 |title=Theoretical Notes on Trade Problems |journal=Review of Economics and Statistics |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=145–154 |doi=10.2307/1928178 |jstor=1928178}}</ref>
* [[Macroeconomics]], where he popularized the [[overlapping generations model]] as a way to analyze economic agents' behavior across multiple periods of time,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money |journal=Journal of Political Economy |date=December 1958 |volume=66 |issue=6 |pages=467–482 |doi=10.1086/258100 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/258100 |language=en |issn=0022-3808|url-access=subscription }}</ref> developed [[multiplier-accelerator model]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |title=Interactions between the Multiplier Analysis and the Principle of Acceleration |journal=The Review of Economics and Statistics |date=May 1939 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=75–78 |doi=10.2307/1927758|jstor=1927758 }}</ref> analyzed [[Phillips curve]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Samuelson |first1=Paul A. |last2=Solow |first2=Robert M. |title=Analytical Aspects of Anti-Inflation Policy |journal=The American Economic Review |date=1960 |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=177–194 |jstor=1815021 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1815021 |issn=0002-8282}}</ref> and contributed to formation of the [[neoclassical synthesis]].<ref>Tobin, James. "Macroeconomics and fiscal policy". ''Paul Samuelson and Modern Economic Theory''. Eds. E. Cary Brown and Robert M. Solow. McGraw-Hill, 1983.</ref>

==Impact==
Samuelson is considered one of the founders of [[neo-Keynesian economics]] and a seminal figure in the development of [[neoclassical economics]]. In awarding him the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]], the committee stated:

{{blockquote|More than any other contemporary economist, Samuelson has helped to raise the general analytical and methodological level in economic science. He has simply rewritten considerable parts of economic theory. He has also shown the fundamental unity of both the problems and analytical techniques in economics, partly by a systematic application of the methodology of maximization for a broad set of problems. This means that Samuelson's contributions range over a large number of different fields.}}

He was also essential in creating the [[neoclassical synthesis]], which ostensibly incorporated [[Keynesian economics|Keynesian]] and [[neoclassical economics|neoclassical]] principles and still dominates current [[mainstream economics]]. In 2003, Samuelson was one of the ten Nobel Prize–winning economists signing the [[Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts]].<ref name="Econ statement">{{cite web|url=http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/econ_stmt_2003/|title=Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts|date=April 3, 2003|access-date=October 31, 2007}}</ref>

Samuelson believed [[unregulated markets]] have drawbacks, he stated, "free markets do not stabilise themselves. Zero regulating is vastly suboptimal to rational regulating. Libertarianism is its own worst enemy!" Samuelson strongly criticised Friedman and [[Friedrich Hayek]], arguing their opposition to state intervention "tells us something about them rather than something about [[Genghis Khan]] or [[Franklin Roosevelt]]. It is paranoid to warn against inevitable slippery slopes ... once individual commercial freedoms are in any way infringed upon."<ref name="Econ2009" />

==Aphorisms and quotations==
[[Stanislaw Ulam]] once challenged Samuelson to name one theory in all of the social sciences that is both true and nontrivial. Several years later, Samuelson responded with [[David Ricardo]]'s theory of [[comparative advantage]]: "That it is logically true need not be argued before a mathematician; that is not trivial is attested by the thousands of important and intelligent men who have never been able to grasp the [[doctrine]] for themselves or to believe it after it was explained to them."<ref>{{cite book |first=Paul |last=Samuelson |year=1969 |chapter=The Way of an Economist |editor-first=P. A. |editor-last=Samuelson |title=International Economic Relations: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Economic Association |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |pages=1–11 }}</ref>

For many years, Samuelson wrote a column for ''[[Newsweek]]''. One article included Samuelson's most quoted remark and a favorite economics joke:

<blockquote>To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.<ref>{{cite news |last=Samuelson |first=Paul |title=Science and Stocks |work=Newsweek |date=September 19, 1966 |page=92 <!-- Newsweek doesn't have this online -->}}</ref></blockquote>

In the early editions of his famous, bestselling economics textbook Paul Samuelson joked that GDP falls when a man "marries his maid".<ref name="Economist 2016 Apr 30" />

==Publications==
[[File:The competitive price system adapted from Samuelson, 1961.jpg|thumb|The competitive price system adapted from Samuelson, 1961]]

===''Foundations of Economic Analysis''===
{{Main|Foundations of Economic Analysis}}

Paul Samuelson's book ''[[Foundations of Economic Analysis]]'' (1946) is considered his [[Masterpiece|magnum opus]]. It is derived from his [[doctoral dissertation]], and was inspired by the [[Thermodynamics#Classical thermodynamics|classical thermodynamic]] methods.<ref name="fiu.edu">Liossatos, Panagis, S. (2004). [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6332615.pdf "Statistical Entropy in General Equilibrium Theory"], (p. 3). Department of Economics, Florida International University.</ref> The book proposes to:
* Examine underlying analogies between central features in theoretical and applied economics and
* Study how ''[[operationalism|operationally meaningful]] theorems'' can be derived with a small number of ''analogous methods'' (p.&nbsp;3),
in order to derive "a general theory of economic theories" (Samuelson, 1983, p. xxvi). The book showed how these goals could be parsimoniously and fruitfully achieved, using the language of the mathematics applied to diverse subfields of economics. The book proposes two general hypotheses as sufficient for its purposes:
* ''Maximizing behavior'' of ''agents'' (including ''consumers'' as to utility and ''business firms'' as to profit) and
* Economic ''systems'' (including a market and an economy) in ''stable equilibrium''.
The first tenet suggests that all actors, whether firms or consumers, are striving to maximize something. They could be attempting to maximize profits, utility, or wealth, but it did not matter because their efforts to improve their well-being would provide a basic model for all actors in an economic system.<ref name="Solow-authored Obit">{{Cite journal|last=Solow|first=Robert|date=January 15, 2010|title=Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009)|journal=Science|volume=327|issue=5963|page=282|doi=10.1126/science.1186205 |pmid=20075240|bibcode=2010Sci...327..282S|s2cid=206525085|doi-access=free}}</ref> His second tenet focuses on providing insight on the workings of equilibrium in an economy. Generally in a market, supply would equal demand. However, he noted that this isn't always the case and that the important thing to look at was a system's natural resting point. ''Foundations'' presents the question of how an equilibrium would react when it is moved from its optimal point.<ref name="Solow-authored Obit" /> Samuelson was also influential in providing explanations on how the changes in certain factors can affect an economic system. For example, he could explain the economic effect of changes in taxes or new technologies.

In the course of analysis, ''[[comparative statics]]'', (the analysis of changes in equilibrium of the system that result from a parameter change of the system) is formalized and clearly stated.

The chapter on [[welfare economics]] "attempt(s) to give a brief but fairly complete survey of the whole field of welfare economics" (Samuelson, 1947, p.&nbsp;252). It also exposits on and develops what became commonly called the [[Abram Bergson|Bergson]]–Samuelson [[social welfare function#Bergson–Samuelson social welfare function|social welfare function]]. It shows how to represent (in the maximization calculus) all real-valued economic measures of any belief system that is required to rank consistently different feasible social configurations in an ethical sense as "better than", "worse than", or "indifferent to" each other (p.&nbsp;221).

===''Economics''===
{{Main|Economics: An Introductory Analysis}}
Samuelson is also author (and from 1985 co-author) of an influential principles textbook, ''[[Economics: An Introductory Analysis|Economics]]'', first published in 1948 (19th ed. as of 2010; multiple reprints). The book sold more than 300,000 copies of each edition from 1961 through 1976 and was translated into forty-one languages. As of 2018, it had sold over four million copies. [[William Nordhaus]] joined as co-author on the 12th edition (1985). Sometime before 1988, it had become the best-selling economics textbook of all time.<ref name="Rosalsky 2018 Mar 14" /><ref name="Sanyal 2018" />

Samuelson was once quoted as saying, "Let those who will write the nation's laws if I can write its textbooks."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Samuelson.html|title=Paul Anthony Samuelson: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics {{!}} Library of Economics and Liberty|website=www.econlib.org|access-date=April 26, 2016}}<!-- NOTE: This is an original biography not available from other sources. --></ref> Written in the shadow of the [[Great Depression]] and the [[Second World War]], it helped to popularize the insights of [[John Maynard Keynes]]. A main focus was how to avoid, or at least mitigate, the recurring slumps in economic activity.

Samuelson wrote: "It is not too much to say that the widespread creation of dictatorships and the resulting World War II stemmed in no small measure from the world's failure to meet this basic economic problem [the Great Depression] adequately."<ref>See {{cite news |author-link=N. Gregory Mankiw |last=Mankiw |first=Gregory |title=Is government spending too easy an answer? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 10, 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/economy/11view.html }}</ref> This reflected the concern of Keynes himself with the economic causes of war and the importance of economic policy in promoting peace.<ref>See {{cite book |author-link=Donald Markwell |first=Donald |last=Markwell |title=John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-19-829236-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Samuelson|first=Paul|title=Economics |url=https://archive.org/details/economicsintrodu00paul|url-access=registration|edition=13th|year=1989|publisher=McGraw Hill|page=[https://archive.org/details/economicsintrodu00paul/page/837 837]|isbn=9780070547865}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Paul A. Samuelson Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1970/samuelson/biographical/}}</ref>

Samuelson's book was the second to introduce Keynesian economics to a wide audience, and was by far the most successful. Canadian economist [[Lorie Tarshis]], who had been a student attending Keynes's lectures at Harvard in the 1930s, published in 1947 an introductory textbook that incorporated his lecture notes, titled ''[https://archive.org/details/elementsofeconom030865mbp/page/n5/mode/2up Elements of Economics]''.<ref name="Tarshis 1947" /><ref name="Harcourt 1982 Summer" /><ref name="Davidson Autumn 2005" /><!--using notes from Keynes classed is on p 107-->

Samuelson's textbook was a watershed in introducing the serious study of business cycles to the economics curriculum. It was particularly timely because it followed the Great Depression. The study of business cycles along with the introduction of the Keynesian approach of aggregate demand set the stage for the macroeconomic revolution in America, which then diffused throughout the world through translations into every major language. Generations of students, who then became teachers, learned their first and most influential lessons from Samuelson's ''Economics.'' It attracted many imitators, who became successful in different niches of the college market.

The text was not without criticism. While it praised the "mixed economy" of market and government, some found that too radical and attacked it as socialist. As a precursor to criticisms of Samuelson's ''Economics'' textbook, [[Lorie Tarshis]]'s textbook was attacked by trustees of, and donors to, American colleges and universities as preaching a "[[socialist]] [[heresy]]".<ref name="Davidson Spring 2015" /> Piling on, [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], in his 1951 book, ''[[God and Man at Yale]],'' devoted an entire chapter, attacking both Samuelson's and Tarshis' textbooks. For Samuelson's book, Buckley drew from the ''Educational Examiner'' and credited it as an "excellent review of Samuelson's text." ("Note to Chapter Two." p.&nbsp;234)<ref name="Buckley 1951" /><ref name="Educational-Reviewer-info" group="lower-alpha" /> For Tarshis' book, Buckley drew from [[Merwin K. Hart]]'s organization {{italics correction|''[[:en:wikt:to wit|to wit]]''}}: "I am also grateful to the [[National Economic Council, Inc.|National Economic Council]] for its telling analysis of the Tarshis." ("Note to Chapter Two." p.&nbsp;234)<ref name="Buckley 1951" /> Buckley essentially characterized both as – in the words of [[Paul Davidson (economist)|Paul Davidson]] – "communist inspired".<ref name="Buckley 1951" /><ref name="Davidson Autumn 2005" /> Buckley, for the rest of his life, defended the criticisms set forth in his book.

===Other publications===
There are 388 papers in Samuelson's ''Collected Scientific Papers''. [[Stanley Fischer]] (1987, p.&nbsp;234) writes that taken together they are "unique in their verve, breadth of economic and general knowledge, mastery of setting, and generosity of allusions to predecessors".

Samuelson was co-editor, along with [[William A. Barnett]], of ''Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists'' (Blackwell Publishing, 2007), a collection of interviews with notable economists of the 20th century.

==Memberships==
* Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Anthony Samuelson |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/paul-anthony-samuelson |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> the [[American Philosophical Society]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Paul+Samuelson&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> the United States [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul A. Samuelson |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50903.html |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref>
* Fellow of the [[British Academy]]
* President (1965–68) of the [[International Economic Association]]
* Member and past president (1961) of the [[American Economic Association]]
* Member of the editorial board and past president (1951) of the [[Econometric Society]]
*Fellow, council member and past vice-president of the [[Royal Economic Society]].
*Member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]].

==Selected publications==
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===Textbooks and chapters===
* Samuelson, Paul A. (1947), Enlarged ed. 1983. ''[[Foundations of Economic Analysis]]'', Harvard University Press.
* Samuelson, Paul A. (1948), ''[[Economics: An Introductory Analysis]]'', {{ISBN|0-07-074741-5}}; with [[William Nordhaus|William D. Nordhaus]] (since 1985), 2009, 19th ed., McGraw–Hill. {{ISBN|978-0-07-126383-2}}
* Samuelson, Paul A. (1958), ''Linear Programming and Economic Analysis'' with [[Robert Dorfman]] and [[Robert M. Solow]], McGraw–Hill. Chapter-preview [https://books.google.com/books?id=k5_vzaCNQP4C&pg=PP11 links.]

===Chapters===
* {{cite book | last = Samuelson | first = Paul A. | contribution = Efficient paths of capital accumulation in terms of the calculus of variations | editor-last1 = Arrow | editor-first1 = Kenneth J. | editor-last2 = Karlin | editor-first2 = Samuel | editor-last3 = Suppes | editor-first3 = Patrick | editor-link1 = Kenneth Arrow | editor-link2 = Samuel Karlin | editor-link3 = Patrick Suppes | title = Mathematical models in the social sciences, 1959: Proceedings of the first Stanford symposium | pages = 77–88 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | series = Stanford mathematical studies in the social sciences, IV | year = 1960 | isbn = 9780804700214 }}
* {{cite book | last = Samuelson | first = Paul A. | contribution = Quesnay's 'Tableau Economique' as a theorist would formulate it today | editor-last1 = Meek | editor-first1 = Ronald (author) | editor-last2 = Bradley | editor-first2 = Ian C.| editor-last3 = Howard | editor-first3 = Michael C.| editor-link1 = Ronald L. Meek | title = Classical and Marxian political economy: essays in honour of Ronald L. Meek | pages = 45–78 | publisher = Macmillan | location = London | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780333321997 }}

===Journal articles===
* {{cite journal |last=Samuelson |first=Paul A. |year=1952 |title=Economic Theory and Mathematics – An Appraisal |journal=American Economic Review |volume=42 |issue=2 |url=http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cp/p00b/p0061.pdf |pages=56–66}}
*{{cite journal | last1 = Samuelson | first1 = Paul A | year = 1954 | title = The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure | journal = Review of Economics and Statistics | volume = 36 | issue = 4| pages = 387–89 | doi = 10.2307/1925895 | jstor = 1925895 | s2cid = 153571905 }}

===Collected works===
* ''The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson'', MIT Press. Preview links for vol. 1–3 below. Contents links for vol. 4–7. {{OCLC|1079936608|show=all}}.
**Samuelson, Paul A. (1966), Vol. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oi-yoPkdKXkC&pg=PR9=gbs_book_other_versions_r 1] → via [[Google Books]], 1937–mid-1964.
**––. (1966), Vol. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XQQFn8Vk470C&pg=PR9=gbs_book_other_versions_r 2] → via [[Google Books]], 1937–mid-1964.
**––. (1972), Vol. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xisb9usg790C&dq=false&pg=PR7 3] → via [[Google Books]], mid-1964–1970.
**––.(1977), Vol. [https://archive.org/details/trent_0116403027612/page/n5/mode/2up 4] → via [[Internet Archive]] {{registration required|nolink=y}}, 1971–76.
**––. (1986), Vol. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UKeJEc46R9AC&pg=PR8 5] → via [[Google Books]], 1977–1985 [https://web.archive.org/web/20150630034401/https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collected-scientific-papers-paul-samuelson-3 Description] → via 
**––. (2011), Vol. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/samuelson/samuelson6.pdf 6]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 1986–2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110502115456/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12518 Description] → via [[Wayback Machine]]
**––. (2011), Vol. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/samuelson/samuelson7.pdf 7]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 1986–2009.


===Essays===
* Samuelson, Paul A.  (1983).  "My Life Philosophy", ''The American Economist'', 27(2), [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0569434516630199 pp. 5–12.]
* Samuelson, Paul A. (2007), ''Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists'' with [[William A. Barnett]], Blackwell Publishing, {{ISBN|1-4051-5917-0}}
* Samuelson, Paul A. (2002), ''Paul Samuelson and the Foundations of Modern Economics'', Transaction Publishers, {{ISBN|978-0-76-580114-2}}

===Papers===
* [http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/samuelsonpaul/ Paul A. Samuelson Papers, 1933–2010], [[Duke University Libraries#David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library|Rubenstein Library]], [[Duke University]]. {{OCLC|664246147}}.
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==See also==
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*[[Samuelson's inequality]]
*[[Iceberg transport cost model|Samuelson's Iceberg transport cost model]]
*[[Keynesian economics]]
*[[New Keynesian economics]]
*[[Neo-Keynesian economics]]
*[[Neoclassical economics]]
*[[q:Paul Samuelson|Paul Samuelson – Wikiquote]]
*[[List of Jewish Nobel laureates]]
{{colend}}

== Notes ==
=== Explanatory annotations ===
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* {{Hanging indent |text=''[[Economics – Principles, Problems, and Policies]]'' (1st ed. 1960), has, at times, been a U.S. best-seller. Campbell Robertson "Mac" McConnell, PhD (1928–2019) was sole author until the 10th ed. Stanley Leonard Brue, PhD (born 1945) became co-author with the 11th ed. (1990). Sean Masaki Flynn, PhD (born 1973) became third co-author beginning with the 18th ed. (2009). }}
* {{Hanging indent |text=''[[Principles of Economics (Mankiw book)|Principles of Economics]],'' by [[Greg Mankiw]] is widely used to cover basics and [[macroeconomics]] }}
* {{Hanging indent |text=[[Hal Varian]] has published several widely used textbooks for [[microeconomics]]. }}
*{{Hanging indent |text=''[[Microeconomic Theory]]'' by [[Andreu Mas-Colell]], [[Michael Whinston]], and [[Jerry Green (economist)|Jerry Green]] is one of the most widely used textbooks in [[microeconomics]] courses in graduate schools.}}</ol></ref>-->

<ref name="Educational-Reviewer-info">The ''Educational Reviewer'' was founded in 1949 by Lucille Cardin Crain ({{italics correction|''née''}} Marie Lucille Gabrielle Cardin; 1901–1983), a conservative activist whose primary interest was in – as she stated in 1951 – "rooting out radical influences in American education." In each issue, arch-conservative academicians and writers offered their views of high school and college textbooks as evidence of [[Collectivism and individualism|collectivist]] content and the like. The publication, for the first three years, was chiefly financed by [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] Crain's husband, Kenneth Cardwell Crain (1883–1969), was a brother of [[Gustavus Demetrious Crain, Jr.]] (1885–1973), founder of [[Crain Communications]]. <!--https://kirkcenter.org/essays/defending-the-right-and-the-good/ check this source--></ref>
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last1=Backhouse |first1=Roger E. |author-link1=Roger E. Backhouse |title=Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915–1948. |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-066411-4 |language=en}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=65-PDgAAQBAJ Description] & [https://books.google.com/books?id=65-PDgAAQBAJ arrow-scrollable preview].
* {{cite book |first=Stanley |last=Fischer |year=1987 |title=Samuelson, Paul Anthony |work=The [[New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics]] |volume=4 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |pages=234–41 |isbn=978-0-935859-10-2 }}.
* {{cite book |first=Leonard |last=Silk |title=The Economists |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-465-01810-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/economists0000unse }}.
* {{cite book |author-link=Robert Sobel |last=Sobel |first=Robert |title=The Worldly Economists |location=New York |publisher=Free Press |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-02-929780-3 }}.
* {{cite book |first=Daniel R. |last=Fusfeld |year=2002 |chapter=The Neoclassical Synthesis |title=The Age of the Economist |edition=9th |location=Boston |publisher=[[Addison-Wesley]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ageofeconomist0087fusf/page/198 198–201] |isbn=978-0-321-08812-3 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/ageofeconomist0087fusf |url=https://archive.org/details/ageofeconomist0087fusf/page/198 }}.
* {{Forummag|title=I inkomstpolitiken tvår vi våra händer|author=|url=https://forum-mag.fi/i-inkomstpolitiken-tvar-vi-vara-hander/|access-date=|date=1973-10-31|issue=1973-17|page=07-09|year=1973|language=sv-SE}}

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027101106/http://geocities.com/gfh_axds_as/zax/samuelson-bio-press.html Presentation Speech] by Professor [[Assar Lindbeck]], Stockholm School of Economics, Award Ceremony, The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040806110730/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/samuelson.htm ''A History of Economic Thought'' biography], 2004
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009) |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Samuelson.html |encyclopedia=[[The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |edition=2nd |series=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |publisher=[[Liberty Fund]] |year=2009 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071014093711/http://yale.edu/opa/campus/2005_commencement/honorand_bios.html#samuelson Paul Samuelson], Yale Honorands biography, May 2005
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/obit-samuelson-1213.html "Nobel-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson dies at age 94"], ''MIT News'', December 13, 2009
* {{Internet Archive author |sname = Paul Samuelson}}
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