On its 70th anniversary, its ideas on technology’s link to economic growth remain central to debates around the impact of ...

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 ...

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 ...

His elegant work established that the main determinant of economic growth was technology, not growing capital and labor. By Robert D. Hershey Jr. and Michael M. Weinstein See more of our coverage in ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...