Paul Samuelson started his studies in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, when “economics was the most exciting thing in the world.” Already a well-known academic, he helped build the ...

The think tank Chatham House describes ‘GeoEconomics’ as ‘the interplay of international economics, geopolitics and strategy’. The central question in GeoEconomics is the extent to which the ...

When asked to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial, Paul Samuelson famously replied ... This direct information about relative productivity differences across ...

Definition: This is a theory of economics laid down by Paul Samuelson which aims at revealing the preference of consumers by monitoring their purchasing habits. Description: The theory basically seeks ...

Joseph Stiglitz is a man of the Left, but he’s no crabby Corbyn. He’s a lovely fellow and a brilliant theorist of economics (Nobel Prize, 2001). Like his mentor Paul Samuelson (Nobel Prize, 1970), he ...

Musgrave, Richard Abel. 1939. "The Voluntary Exchange Theory of Public Economy." Quarterly Journal of Economics 53 (2): 213–37. Musgrave, Richard A. 1959. The Theory of Public Finance. New York: ...

Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2 (May 2006): 635–672. (Winner of TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award Certificate of Excellence For an outstanding research publication containing ideas that the ...

Winner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily ...