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The economist’s economist ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 01/25/2010 Oftentimes undergraduates find that they can learn more about the subject if they simply read a well-written basic textbook authored by an authority on the subject. They tend to believe, in such a situation, that they will fare just as well reading the book as attending classes on the subject. A case in point is Economics, which was written in the early 1950s by Paul Samuelson, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), whose economics department he helped build into arguably the best in the US academic firmament. Professor Samuelson died just before Christmas in a small town in his beloved Massachusetts. He was 94..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100125com3.html

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