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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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Robert Solow appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Economics collection — one of 99 entries. It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1924 births, 2023 deaths and 20th-century American economists.
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Person · Open Library
- 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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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,957x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,888x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,549x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,939x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,336x
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Quotes
- “Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.”
- “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
- “More generally, Schumpeter seemed to be playing the role of grand seigneur, and he tended to flatter where flattery was not due, no doubt satirically. All this went along with his reputation as a casual and easy grader. We used to say that he threw the exam books up a staircase: the ones that stuck at the top got an A, the ones that fell to the bottom an A minus. I was surprised to learn that in Austrian universities he had the reputation of a stern taskmaster.”
- “In recollecting Schumpeter, it is hard to tear oneself away from the exotic manner, the dubious politics, the carefully crafted image, the hidden self-doubts, the convoluted life story, the complicated relations to three wives and several non-wives.”
- “I think that this is Schumpeter’s main legacy to economics: the role of technological and organizational innovation in driving and shaping the growth trajectory of capitalist economies.”
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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”
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- Robert Solow
- date of birth
- 1924-08-23
- Erdős number
- 4
- name in native language
- Robert Merton Solow
- date of death
- 2023-12-21
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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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