Solow, Robert

August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023

Education

Harvard University, BA 1947

Harvard University, PhD 1951 (Mathematics Genealogy Project) 

Affiliations

Academic Affiliations

• Columbia University
• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Non-Academic Affiliations

• U. S. Army

Key Interests in OR/MS

Methodologies

• Economics / Econometrics
• Optimization/Mathematical Programming

Oral Histories

Clement, Douglas (2002) Interview with Robert Solow.  The Region, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, September 1, 2002.  (link)

Robert Solow (2004) Interview by Marika Griehsel, September. Nobel Prize Web. (video)

Robert Solow (2007) Interview by Brian Keegan, August 15. The MIT 150 Infinite Oral History Project. (video)

Robert Solow (2009) Interview by Peter Berck. The Annual Review of Resource Economics. (see embedded YouTube video below)

 

Memoirs and Autobiographies

Memoirs

Nobel Prize. Nobel Prizes and Laureate: Robert M. Solow - Biographical. Accessed December 18, 2018. (link)

Solow R (2009) An Amateur Among Professionals. in Annual Review of Resource Economics, 1 (October):001-014. (link)

Archives

Robert M. Solow Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. (link)

Awards and Honors

John Bates Clark Medal 1961

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1987

National Medal of Sciences 1999

Presidential Medal of Freedom 2014

Professional Service

American Economics Society, President 1979 

Selected Publications

Dorfman R., Samuelson P., & Solow R. (1958) Linear Programming and Economic Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Solow R. M. (1963) Capital theory and the rate of return. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Burmeister E., Dobell A. R., Turnovsky S. J., & Solow R. M. (1970) Mathematical theories of economic growth (Vol. 968). London: Macmillan.

Baily M. N. & Solow R. M. (2001) International productivity comparisons built from the firm level. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 151-172.