biography
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Samuelson, Paul (Anthony)
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| lived:
| (1915– )
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Gary, Indiana, USA. By age 26 he had obtained his PhD from Harvard and secured a teaching position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His distinguished career included writings on a wide variety of subjects in economics, including international trade, production theory, capital theory, financial analysis, growth theory, and the history of economic thought. His textbook, Economics (1948, 11th edn 1980) has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 1970 he received the Nobel Prize for Economics. |
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