"Nobel Prize in Economics" Robert Solow Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller for Sale

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Robert Merton Solow,GCIH(/ˈsoʊloʊ/;born August 23, 1924), is an Americaneconomistwhose work on thetheory ofeconomic growthculminated in theexogenous growthmodelnamed after him.He is currentlyEmeritusInstituteProfessorof Economics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology,where he has been a professor since 1949.He was awarded theJohnBates Clark Medalin 1961, theNobel Memorial Prize in EconomicSciencesin 1987,and thePresidential Medal of Freedomin2014. Four of his PhD students,George Akerlof,Joseph Stiglitz,PeterDiamondandWilliam Nordhauslater received Nobel MemorialPrizes in Economic Sciences in their own right. Robert Solow was borninBrooklyn,New York, into aJewishfamily on August 23,1924, the oldest of three children. He regarded his parents as being veryintelligent people but were not able to go to college due to the necessity towork.He was well educated in the neighborhood public schools and excelledacademically early in life. In September 1940, Solow went toHarvard Collegewitha scholarship at the age of 16. At Harvard, his first studies wereinsociologyandanthropologyas well as elementaryeconomicsIn 1941, Solow left the university and joinedtheU.S. Army. Because he was fluent in German, the Army put him on a taskforce whose primary purpose was to intercept, interpret, and send back Germanmessages to base.[39]He served briefly inNorthAfricaandSicily, and later in Italy until he was discharged inAugust 1945.Shortly after returning, he proceeded to marry his girlfriend,Barbara Lewis, whom he had only been dating for six months. He returned toHarvard in 1945, and studied underWassily Leontief. As Leontief'sresearch assistant he produced the first set of capital-coefficients fortheinput–output model. Then he became From 1949–50, hespent a fellowship year atColumbia Universityto study statisticsmore intensively. During that year he also worked on his Ph.D. thesis, anexploratory attempt to model changes in the size distribution of wage incomeusing interactingMarkov processesfor employment-unemployment andwage rates.In 1949, just before going off to Columbia, he wasoffered and accepted an assistant professorship in theEconomicsDepartment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At M.I.T. he taughtcourses in statistics andeconometrics. Solow's interest gradually changedtomacroeconomics. For almost 40 years, Solow andPaulSamuelsonworked together on many landmark theories:von Neumanngrowth theory(1953),theory of capital(1956),linearprogramming(1958) and thePhillips curve(1960). Solow alsoheld several government positions, including senior economist fortheCouncil of Economic Advisers(1961–62) and member of thePresident's Commission on Income Maintenance (1968–70). His studies focusedmainly in the fields of employment and growth policies, and thetheory ofcapital. In 1961 he won the American Economic Association'sJohn BatesClark Award, given to the best economist under age forty. In 1979 he served aspresident of that association. In 1987, he won theNobel Prizeforhis analysis of economic growth[38]and in 1999, he receivedtheNational Medal of Science. In 2011, he received an honorary degree inDoctor of Science fromTufts University. Solow is the founder oftheCournot Foundationand theCournot Centre. After the deathof his colleague Franco Modigliani, Solow accepted an appointment as newChairman of the I.S.E.O Institute, an Italian nonprofit cultural associationwhich organizes international conferences and summer schools. He is a trusteeof theEconomists for Peace and Security. Solow's past students include2010 Nobel Prize winnerPeter Diamond, as well asMichaelRothschild,Halbert White,Charlie Bean,Michael Woodford,andHarvey Wagner. He is ranked 23rd among economistsonRePEcin terms of the strength of economists who have studiedunder him.Solow was one of the signees of a 2018amicicuriaebrief that expressed support for Harvard University intheStudents for Fair Admissions v. Harvardlawsuit. Signers of thebrief includeAlan B. Krueger,George A. Akerlof,JanetYellen,Cecilia Rouse, along with many others.