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Paul A. SamuelsonHis first major work, Foundations of Economic Analysis, was published in 1947. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society and the British Academy fellow; member and past President (1961) of the American Economic Association; the editorial board member and past-President (1951) of the Econometric Society; Phi Beta Kappa member, fellow, council member and past Vice-President of the Economic Society. He lives with his wife and six children (including triplet boys) in Belmont, Mass. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Chicago University in 1935, the degrees of Master of Arts in 1936, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1941 from Harvard University. A Social Science Research Council predoctoral fellow from 1935-1937, a member of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1937-1940, and a Ford Foundation Research Fellow from 1958-1959. He received honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Chicago University and Oberlin College in 1961, from Indiana University and East Anglia University (Eng.) in 1966. Harvard University awarded him the David A. Wells Prize in 1941. American Economic Association awarded him the John Bates Clark Medal in 1947, as the living economist under forty "who has made the most distinguished contribution to the main body of economic thought and knowledge."
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Paul Anthony Samuelson, Economics Professor at the MIT, was born in Gary, Indiana, in 1915. His work in economic theory has been in modern welfare economics, linear programming, Keynesian economics, economic dynamics, international trade theory, logic choice and maximization.