I had no idea this was Solow’s doing! (He retired the year I started my PhD at MIT) For this alone he deserved all the prizes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/robert-solow-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Now instead of a thesis ‘stretching out over 100 pages’ we have three chapters each ‘stretching out over 100 pages’.
You frightened Solow into retirement? Wow. :-) You're right. This was a transformative idea.
Interesting.
That's very cool. I also had no idea.
He also pushed for systems to measure the impact of policies, helping found MDRC, for instance. mdrc.org/news/mdrc-mo...
The Board of Directors and the staff of MDRC mourn the passing of Robert Solow, Nobel economist, long-time professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and founding member of the MD...