Robert Solow

Robert Solow
Robert Solow
	Solow in 2008
Born	Robert Merton Solow; August 23, 1924; Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	December 21, 2023 (aged 99); Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD); Columbia University
Academic career
Institution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field	Macroeconomics
School or; tradition	Neo-Keynesian economics
Doctoral; advisor	Wassily Leontief
Doctoral; students	George Akerlof; Mario Baldassarri; Francis M. Bator; Charlie Bean; Alan Blinder; Vittorio Corbo; Peter Diamond; Avinash Dixit; Mario Draghi; Alain Enthoven; Ray Fair; Ronald Findlay; Robert J. Gordon; Robert Hall; Michael Intriligator; Katsuhito Iwai; Ronald W. Jones; Arnold Kling; Meir Kohn; Glenn Loury; Herbert Mohring; William Nordhaus; George Perry; Robert Pindyck; Arjun Kumar Sengupta; Steven Shavell; Eytan Sheshinski; Jeremy Siegel; Joseph Stiglitz; Harvey M. Wagner; Martin Weitzman; Halbert White
Influences	Paul Samuelson
Contributions	Exogenous growth model
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1961); Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1987); National Medal of Science (1999); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014)
	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (/ˈsoʊloʊ/; August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist and Nobel laureate whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He was Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 on. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1987, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. Four of his PhD students, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, and William Nordhaus, later received Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Sciences in their own right.

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