No sooner did Robert Solow’s famous growth model appear in the literature of technical economics in 1957 than two things happened. The vast majority of economists concerned with economic growth went ...

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, ...

“There’ll never be another Camelot,” said Mrs. John F. Kennedy forty-nine years ago this week, in the wake of her husband’s assassination in late autumn, 1963. “Camelot,” of Knights of the Round Table ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do societies become richer? Robert Solow, an American economist who died Thursday at age 99, said technical progress and innovation were a core reason economies grew and people became prosperous.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is often asserted that the more substitutable capital and labor are in the aggregate production the more rapidly an economy grows. Recently ...

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 ...