Peter Howitt
Also known as Peter W. Howitt
Canadian economist (born 1946)
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- Born
- 1946
- Works
- 22
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- Sliding doors
- Letters from Lockdown
- Implications of Knowledge-Based Growth for Micro-Economic Policies
- Endogenous Growth Theory
- Economics of Growth
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Peter Wilkinson Howitt (born May 31, 1946) is a Canadian economist and the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Brown University. He is best known for his collaborative work with Philippe Aghion on endogenous growth theory, the concept of creative destruction in modern macroeconomics and the Aghion–Howitt model. In 2025, Howitt and Aghion were jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction."
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