{"id":2497,"date":"2009-12-14T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2009-12-14T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:47:11","slug":"rippaul-samuelson-r-i-p-paul-krugman-blog-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/14\/rippaul-samuelson-r-i-p-paul-krugman-blog-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP::Paul Samuelson, R.I.P. &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Paul Samuelson, R.I.P.<br \/>\nOh, my. Paul Samuelson has died. He had a long, good life; yet he will be sorely missed.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s hard to convey the full extent of Samuelson\u2019s greatness. Most economists would love to have written even one seminal paper \u2014 a paper that fundamentally changes the way people think about some issue. Samuelson wrote dozens: from international trade to finance to growth theory to speculation to well, just about everything, underlying much of what we know is a key Samuelson paper that set the agenda for generations of scholars.<br \/>\nAnd he was a wonderfully down-to-earth human being besides. For a number of years I shared an office suite with him and Bob Solow; he always had time to talk, and was completely without airs.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/13\/paul-samuelson-rip\/\">Paul Samuelson, R.I.P. &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Samuelson, R.I.P. Oh, my. Paul Samuelson has died. He had a long, good life; yet he will be sorely missed. It\u2019s hard to convey the full extent of Samuelson\u2019s greatness. Most economists would love to have written even one seminal paper \u2014 a paper that fundamentally changes the way people think about some issue. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/14\/rippaul-samuelson-r-i-p-paul-krugman-blog-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP::Paul Samuelson, R.I.P. &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}