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Paul Samuelson

1915 - 2009

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Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". Samuelson was one of the most influential economists of the latter half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Samuelson has received more than 1,422,072 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Paul Samuelson is the 18th most popular economist (down from 17th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from United States (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Economist.

Paul Samuelson is most famous for his work in economic theory. He was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Paul Samuelson ranks 18 out of 414. Before him are Alfred Marshall, François Quesnay, Ludwig von Mises, Klaus Schwab, John Law, and Gunnar Myrdal. After him are Jean-Baptiste Say, Mario Draghi, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Alexander Hamilton, and Jacques Delors.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Paul Samuelson ranks 14. Before him are Vasily Zaitsev, Yitzhak Shamir, David Rockefeller, Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, and Eli Wallach. After him are Billie Holiday, Paul Tibbets, Stanley Matthews, Joachim Peiper, Hu Yaobang, and Jerome Bruner. Among people deceased in 2009, Paul Samuelson ranks 7. Before him are Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Kim Dae-jung, Millvina Dean, and Corazon Aquino. After him are Roh Moo-hyun, Aage Bohr, Omar Bongo, Pina Bausch, Maurice Jarre, and David Carradine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Samuelson ranks 319 out of 20,380. Before him are J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Nina Simone (1933), J. P. Morgan (1837), Claude Shannon (1916), James Buchanan (1791), and Grover Cleveland (1837). After him are George Westinghouse (1846), Henry Miller (1891), Ted Kaczynski (1942), Angelina Jolie (1975), Zachary Taylor (1784), and Ezra Pound (1885).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Paul Samuelson ranks 2. Before him are Milton Friedman (1912). After him are Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Michael Porter (1947), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Robert Solow (1924), Paul Krugman (1953), Gary Becker (1930), Murray Rothbard (1926), Thorstein Veblen (1857), and Douglass North (1920).

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