Paul A. Samuelson, author of the former Economics 1 textbook, will spend next year at Harvard as a visiting professor in the Department of Economics while on sabbatical from M.I.T. His stay will be ...

Wolfgang F. Stolper, 89, an economist whose work included a theory used to explain the effect of international trade on wages, died Monday in Ann Arbor, Mich., during surgery to clear a blood clot.

There was a big debate about this in the economics profession in the early 1990s. Not one single economist argued about the direction of trade’s effect ? it was universally agreed that it was negative ...