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Robert Solow

1924 - 2023

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Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Solow has received more than 969,649 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Robert Solow is the 40th most popular economist (up from 59th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from United States (up from 801st in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Economist.

Robert Solow is most famous for his work on economic growth. He is most well-known for his 1956 article, "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth," in which he proposed that economic growth can be explained by technological progress.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Solow ranks 40 out of 414. Before him are Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, Karl Polanyi, and Frédéric Bastiat. After him are Maurice Allais, Ronald Coase, Friedrich List, Paul Krugman, Bernard Mandeville, and Gary Becker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Robert Solow ranks 27. Before him are Benny Hill, Georges Charpak, Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, Willard Boyle, and Roger Guillemin. After him are James Baldwin, Mário Soares, Sidney Lumet, Kōbō Abe, Black Dahlia, and Lee Marvin. Among people deceased in 2023, Robert Solow ranks 36. Before him are Ferid Murad, Raquel Welch, Helmut Berger, Burt Young, Carlos Saura, and Harry Belafonte. After him are László Sólyom, Renata Scotto, Matthew Perry, Antonio Negri, William Friedkin, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Solow ranks 590 out of 20,380. Before him are Julianne Moore (1960), Carrie Fisher (1956), Glen Campbell (1936), Linda Lovelace (1949), Gene Kelly (1912), and John Belushi (1949). After him are Boris Johnson (1964), James Baldwin (1924), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Robert Kardashian (1944), Ellen Burstyn (1932), and Sugar Ray Robinson (1921).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Solow ranks 7. Before him are Milton Friedman (1912), Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Michael Porter (1947), Herbert A. Simon (1916), and Elinor Ostrom (1933). After him are Paul Krugman (1953), Gary Becker (1930), Murray Rothbard (1926), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Douglass North (1920), and Theodore Schultz (1902).

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