SAMUELSON NORDHAUS ECONOMICS

PAUL A. SAMUELSON , FOUNDER OF THE RENOWNED MIT GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS , WAS TRAINED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO  AND HARWARD . HIS MANY SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS BROUGHT HIM WORLD FAME AT A YOUNG AGE , AND IN 1970 HE WAS THE FIRST AMERUICAN TO RECEIVE A NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS . ONE OF THOSE RARE SCIENTISTS WHO CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE LAY PUBLIC PROFESSOR WROTE AN ECONOMICS COLUMN FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS ECONOMIC ADVISER TO PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY .