Robert Solow
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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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- 23 August 1924
- Died
- 21 December 2023
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- 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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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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