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Robert Solow
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Robert Solow (1924-2023) was an American economist at MIT. He developed the Solow-Swan model of long-run economic growth, showing that technological progress, not capital accumulation alone, drives sustained per-capita growth. He won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for this work.
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Robert Merton Solow was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow-Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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August 23, 1924
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December 21, 2023
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