President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to economist Robert Solow during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 24, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...

Robert M. Solow, who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics for exploring the impact of technology on economic growth, work that spawned a wider understanding of what drives the expansion of industrial ...

Over the past two centuries, the problem of economic growth has been central to economic analysis, since it has to outpace population growth in order to ensure that per capita income increases in ...

Last summer, as he turned 95, the economist Robert M. Solow sat at home poring over a draft outline of “The Work of the Future,” an MIT report about technology, jobs, and economic growth. Solow has ...