Robert Solow, a Nobel laurete who won the prestigious prize in 1987 for his work analysing how technological growth drives economics in developed nations, has died on Thursday at his home in ...

Robert Solow, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who won a Nobel Prize for his analysis of how technology drives economic growth in developed nations, has died. He was ...

Nobel laureate Robert Solow, credited as the founder of the modern model of economic growth, died on Thursday at the age of 99. Through his writings in the 1950s, Solow challenged traditional thinking ...

Ensconced in a lorry, hidden from the enemy by the brow of a hill, the young Robert Solow decoded the radio signals of Nazi platoons across Italy. “We were very, very good at it,” he said. The trick ...

HE doesn’t use e-mail—yet his name is inextricably linked with technological progress. An avid sailor who never strays far from shore, Robert Solow is one of the most adventurous minds in economics, ...

One of the odder little economic debates of this day and age is whether those sharing economy companies like Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, should be allowed to get on with their work of disrupting the ...

Tying together two recent posts, once you understand that GDP growth isn’t all there is to human progress you can see another problem with Robert Gordon’s techno-pessimism namely that he bounces back ...

Why must China maintain high economic growth? Firstly, countries with growing populations must have economic growth, otherwise they fall into the Malthusian trap. If economic growth stops, there would ...

An esteemed Harvard economist once said that if the earth were threatened with an alien invasion, he would want Robert Solow to chair the international commission on how to deal with it. What he meant ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The First Millennium Development Goal (MDG#1) is to cut the fraction of global population living on less than one dollar ...