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 ...
Robert M. Solow, who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics for exploring the impact of technology on economic growth, work that spawned a wider understanding of what drives the expansion of industrial ...
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 M. Solow, who won a Nobel in economic science in 1987 for his theory that advances in technology, rather than increases in capital and labor, have been the primary drivers of economic growth in ...