Paul Samuelson
1915 – 2009 · United States · Economics
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1970
Mathematised economics and wrote the textbook that taught the postwar world.
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- John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946 · Economics, Politics
Samuelson's textbook fixed the neoclassical synthesis of Keynes for two generations.
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