Paul Samuelson started his studies in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, when “economics was the most exciting thing in the world.” Already a well-known academic, he helped build the ...

Paul Samuelson married, in 1938, Marion Crawford, with whom he had six children, including triplets (at one stage they were sending 350 nappies to the laundry each week). Marion died in 1978 ...