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Paul Samuelson [1915-0] American

Rank: 101
Economist

Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory".

Change, Education, Good, Science

Quote	Tags	Rank
Good questions outrank easy answers.	Education, Good	101
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.	Change	102
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.		103
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.		104
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.		105
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.		106
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.		107
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.		108
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.	Science	109
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.		110
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.		111
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.		112
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.		113
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.		114
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.		115

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