From today's NY Times online edition,
"Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and
the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his
home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94."
See the complete story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/economy/14samuelson.html
Humberto Barreto