Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

Paul Solman reflects on the life and work of economist Paul Samuelson, who died Sunday at the age of 94. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Paul Samuelson, America's first ...

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott (W. W. Norton, 385 pp., $28.95) Macroeconomics has come a long way in the last century. We’ve learned a lot about the forces ...

WASHINGTON —For the record, it’s worth noting that Russia’s swift seizure of Crimea confounds and contradicts one of the hopeful axioms of conventional wisdom. The presumption — rarely stated openly ...