Paul Samuelson

As professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has worked in fields including:

• Welfare economics[?], in which he created the Samuelson tests[?] which are criteria for deciding whether an action will improve welfare;
• Public finance theory[?], in which he is particularly known for his work on determining the optimal allocation of resources in the presence of both public goods and private goods[?].

He was also the author of an influential economics textbook, Economics, first published in 1945.

See also

• List of economists
• List of economics consultancies and think tanks