Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915-2009)

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Paul Anthony
Samuelson
(1915-2009)

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● Biography
● Life works
● Conclusion

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Biography
Paul Samuelson was born on May 15, 1915, in Gary, Indiana. He was
educated at the University of Chicago in Illinois and at Harvard
University. Although he was not the best of students, Samuelson became
one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century.

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Biography
He was educated at the University of Chicago in Illinois and at Harvard
University.

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Publications
The book proposes to:
● examine underlying analogies
between central features in
theoretical and applied economics
● and study how operationally
meaningful theorems can be
derived with a small number of
analogous methods
“Foundations of Economic
Analysis” (1947)

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Publications
● The book has been translated into
forty-one languages and sold over
four million copies; it is considered
the best-selling economics textbook
in history.
“Economics” (1948)

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Nobel Prize
He was given the 1970 Nobel
Prize in Economics for doing
"more than any other
contemporary economist to
raise the level of scientific
analysis in economic theory."

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Conclusion
Samuelson died after a brief illness on
December 13, 2009, at the age of 94.

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Conclusion
In sum, i would like to say that Samuelson has
contributed to almost every branch of economics. He
made many contributions to mathematical economic
theory, and held many positions in which his opinion
was highly respected. And i think that Samuelson was
one of the greatest economists of the twentieth
century. That completes my presentation.

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