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Robert Solow was an American economist who lived from 1924 to 2023 and made influential contributions to understanding how economies grow and develop. His work fundamentally shaped how economists think about the sources of economic growth, including the roles of capital, labor, and technological innovation.
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- Born
- 23 August 1924
- Died
- 21 December 2023
- Works
- 56
Top works
- Competitive disinflation
- Growth with equity through investment in human capital
- Why is unemployment so high almost everywhere?
- Capital productivity
- Made in America
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1987
“for his contributions to the theory of economic growth”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Lexington
- Occupation
- professor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Notable work
- Solow–Swan model
- Doctoral advisor
- Wassily Leontief
- Field of work
- economic growth
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Image
- Robert Solow by Olaf Storbeck.jpg
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- Commons category
- Robert Solow
- date of birth
- 1924-08-23
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- influenced by
- Wassily Leontief
- name in native language
- Robert Merton Solow
- date of death
- 2023-12-21
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (/ˈsoʊloʊ/; August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
He was Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 on. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1987, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. Four of his PhD students, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, and William Nordhaus, later received Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Sciences in their own right.
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