Paul Samuelson

Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009) was an American economist, writer, and university teacher. Born in Gary and residing in Chicago and Belmont, he died in Belmont. He held a Doctor of Philosophy and worked in macroeconomics, specifically within the Neo-Keynesian economics movement. His academic career included teaching at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was affiliated with the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard University.

Samuelson received several awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Medal of Science, the John Bates Clark Medal, and the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Economic Association, and the American Economic Association. Influenced by John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Wassily Leontief, and Edwin Bidwell Wilson, he supervised student Robert C. Merton. His notable works include *Economic analysis of guaranteed wages*, *Introdução à análise econômica*, and *Theory of Value and Distribution in Economics*.