Take the case of Paul Samuelson, one of the most prominent economists of the 1970s.

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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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And yes, economists like Paul Samuelson were predicting exactly that.

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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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For it was Paul Samuelson, the writer of the economics textbook which entire generations used, who said that he cared not who ran the world as long as he could write the economics textbooks.

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Paul Samuelson attempts to explain the mystery.

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