The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence ...

Nobel laureate Robert Solow, credited as the founder of the modern model of economic growth, died on Thursday at the age of 99. Through his writings in the 1950s, Solow challenged traditional ...

“In the end, what sustained growth was productivity,” said Olivier Blanchard, the Robert M. Solow professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “You could not grow ...