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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born May 15, 1915, Samuelson came of age convinced that mathematics was the "natural language" for economists, a belief he formalized in Foundations of Economic Analysis. In 1948 he published Economics: An Introductory Analysis, the second American textbook to explain Keynesian principles — it became the best-selling economics text of all time. He advised Kennedy and Johnson, consulted for the Treasury and Budget Bureau, and spent years sparring in Newsweek with Milton Friedman, the two economists representing opposite poles: Samuelson the self-described "Cafeteria Keynesian," Friedman the monetarist. When the Swedish Royal Academies awarded him the Nobel in 1970, they said he had done more than any contemporary to raise the level of scientific analysis in the field. He died December 13, 2009, having reshaped how economics was practiced and taught.