When I was a student, Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Kissinger were professors.

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Paul Samuelson's textbook on economics did nothing but reinforce a suspicion I'd always held: Economics was obscure on its best day and as soporific as a Lutheran sermon on the rest.

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James Tobin was a member, Robert Solow was a staff economist, and consultant economists included Kenneth Arrow and Paul Samuelson.

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But they also had a lot of people who were much more activist than we were like Paul Samuelson, Jim Tobin, so on.

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Paul Samuelson, one of the younger winners, and Mr Becker, who was a friend of Griliches, want the committee to take old age explicitly into account.

ECONOMIST: Nobel prize in economics