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 ...

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to economist Robert Solow during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 24, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Solow died 10 days ago. He was 99. His passing was barely noticed globally and probably not at all in India. This is not surprising. The best economists, by which I mean the ones who change the ...

The winter issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives includes a mighty blast by the witty, some say caustic liberal economist Robert Solow, who calls Harvard economist, Greg Mankiw and George W.

The Federal Reserve’s decision Tuesday to buy up long-term government debt won’t solve our economic woes, says Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow. Instead, we need more stimulus spending ...

Government support for research and development is responsible for much of the innovation that drives GDP, argues Mariana Mazzucato. Photo courtesy of Stephen Yang/Bloomberg via Getty Images. As the ...

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 ...