Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Robert Solow, the US economist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize for economics, has died. He was 99. Solow won the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The recent passing of legendary MIT economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow at the age of 99 has triggered a wave of tributes honouring his pioneering research, which deepened our understanding of ...

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 ...