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The first lesson from economics, appearing at the beginning of Nobel Laureate Paul A Samuelson’s magnum opus “Foundations of Economic Analysis” (1948), is that a country must choose between military ...

As the president continues to struggle with the Iran fiasco’s global economic fallout, Paul Krugman explains how Trump has boxed himself into a corner—and why it could soon get much worse for him.

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The Breakthrough Foundation named Albert Maguire of the Class of 1982 and David Gross, a 2004 Nobel laureate in Physics and Princeton’s Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics, Emeritus, as ...

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Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. He works on the mathematics of highly nonlinear systems—ones that respond in dramatic, unpredictable ways to even the smallest changes. It’s the same ...

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Update: You can read economics correspondent Paul Solman's reflections on Samuelson's life and work here on Making Sen$e. The world lost one of the giants in modern ...