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For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his classically conservative views.

He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in reader-friendly vernacular. By Michael S. Rosenwald Robert J. Samuelson, an ...