"I tell no secret when I repeat that fame and reputation are much a matter of luck and chance."
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"Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication" (1998)
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Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 ā December 13, 2009) was an American economist. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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