He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in ...

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For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his ...

You have no doubt heard the well-worn dictum of Karl Von Clausewitz, the great Prussian military strategist, that war is the extension of politics by other means. Well, the same is true of economic ...

For Barack Obama, the Great Foreboding is both an enormous burden and a splendid opportunity. We are suffering from more than depressed retail sales, stock prices and production. Americans have ...

"Stagflation" is back in the headlines—but the term is being misused, and that's an important story. We're told by eminent newspapers and commentators that stagflation is the messy mixture of both ...

Paul Samuelson, AB'35, found his calling in economics at the University of Chicago during the height of the Great Depression and went on to transform the field with new techniques of rigorous analysis ...

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 ...

The writer sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation, and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years.