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1924–2023 United States
Robert Merton Solow (August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (in 1961) and the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
United States Economists Nobel laureates Also known as: Solow, Robert
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In the advanced economies, I would say: To avoid mass unemployment, poverty and widening inequality.
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.
Another difference between Milton and myself is that everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.
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.
Heavy Thinker (2007)
Some of post-Keynesian price theory comes forth from the belief that universal competition is a bad assumption. I have all my life known that. So I have found it an unrewarding approach and have not paid much attention to it.
Conversations with Economists (1983)
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.
Heavy Thinker (2007)
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