Robert M. Solow

Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)

From the Review

May 14, 2009: How to Understand the Disaster

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression by Richard A. Posner

December 4, 2008: The Trouble with 401(k)s (letter)

November 20, 2008: Trapped in the New 'You're on Your Own' World

High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families by Peter Gosselin

November 22, 2007: 'Survival of the Richest'?

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark

January 11, 2007: Wrong Values (letter)

November 16, 2006: How to Understand the Economy

Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology by Duncan K. Foley

July 3, 2003: Mysteries of Growth

Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How We Can Get Them Working Again by Jeff Madrick

April 11, 2002: Party Line

Economic Report of the President together with The Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers by The Council Of Economic Advisors

January 11, 2001: Don't Forget Keynes (letter)

October 5, 2000: Should We Pay the Debt?

March 23, 2000: Welfare: The Cheapest Country

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert E. Goodin, by Bruce Headey, by Ruud Muffels, by Henk-Jan Dirven

May 20, 1999: 'Gray Dawn': An Exchange

May 6, 1999: On Golden Pond

Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America—and the World by Peter G. Peterson

November 5, 1998: Guess Who Pays for Workfare?

March 24, 1994: 'Endangered American Dream' (letter)

December 16, 1993: Blame the Foreigner

The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third World Country and How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy by Edward N. Luttwak

May 27, 1993: Diminishing Families (letter)

March 25, 1993: Dr. Rivlin's Diagnosis & Mr. Clinton's Remedy

Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government by Alice M. Rivlin

December 5, 1991: How to Stop Hunger

Hunger and Public Action by Jean Drèze, by Amartya Sen

Books by Robert M. Solow

Growth Theory: An Exposition (2000)
Monopolistic Competition and Macroeconomic Theory (1998)
Work and Welfare (1998)
An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability (1997)
Learning from "Learning By Doing": Lessons for Economic Growth (1997)
The Rate of Return and the Rate of Interest (1991)
The Labor Market As a Social Institution (1990)
Growth Theory: An Exposition (1988)
The Story of a Social Experiment and Some Reflections (1980)
Growth Theory: An Exposition (1970)
Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level: Lectures Given in the University of Manchester (1969)