On 17 June 2009, Coner Clarke (The Atlantic) posted a two-part interview with famed 1970 Nobel economist, Paul Samuelson.  Samuelson is one of the people that brought Keynesian economics to US undergraduates for a number of decades through the many editions of his introductory text, Economics.  Furthermore, he led the march to mathematical economics, initially through his Harvard PhD dissertation (published in 1947 as a book), Foundations of Economic Analysis.

At 94, he remains as sharp, witty, sarcastic, and (at times) obscure as when I took his doctoral course in 1979.

Here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview.

He believes that many of today’s “younger” economists lost sight of Keynes’s intuitions until the current financial crisis brought them to the fore.