David P <imbibe@mindspring.com> wrote

> Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009) was the first American to
> win the Nobel Prize in Economics. 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". Economic historian
> Randall E. Parker has called him the "Father of Modern Economics",
> & The NY Times considers him to be the "foremost academic economist
> of the 20th century".

> He studied at the University of Chicago and received his Bachelor
> of Arts degree there in 1935. He said he was born as an economist,
> at 8.00am on Jan. 2, 1932, in the U. of Chicago classroom. The
> lecture mentioned as the cause was on the British economist Thomas
> Malthus, who most famously studied population growth and its effects.

Pity Malthus fucked up so spectacularly and nothing
even remotely like he predicted actually happened.

> Samuelson's family included many well-known economists, including
> brother Robert Summers, sister-in-law Anita Summers, brother-in-law
> Kenneth Arrow and nephew Larry Summers.
>
> During his 7 decades as an economist, Samuelson's professional
> positions included:
> Assistant prof of economics at MIT, 1940; associate prof, 1944.
> Member of the Radiation Laboratory 1944–45.
> Prof of international economic relations (part-time) at the
> Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1945.
> Guggenheim Fellowship from 1948 to 1949
> Prof of economics at MIT beginning in 1947 and Institute Prof
> beginning in 1962.
> Vernon F. Taylor Visiting Distinguished Prof at Trinity University
> (Texas) in spring 1989.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson