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Robert Solow

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Robert Solow (1924-2023) was an American economist at MIT. He developed the Solow-Swan model of long-run economic growth, showing that technological progress, not capital accumulation alone, drives sustained per-capita growth. He won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for this work. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Date
1924-08-23 1
Death Date
2023-12-21 1
Nationality
American 1
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Associated With School

Neoclassical Synthesis, Schools of Thought
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Influenced By

Wassily Leontief, Economists
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United States

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Robert Merton Solow (; 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.
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    Robert Merton Solow 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.
  • Infobox, Born field
    August 23, 1924
  • Infobox, Died field
    December 21, 2023
  • In Group: Growth, Innovation and Human Capital Economists, Lead
    Robert Merton Solow (; 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.
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Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced By: Wassily Leontief, Robert Solow, infobox Doctoral advisor field and early career section
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Solow returned to Harvard in 1945 and studied under Wassily Leontief, serving as his research assistant and producing the first set of capital-coefficients for the input-output model, an early contribution to computational economic analysis.
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