Robert Solow 

This guy is still alive he will be 99 years old this August

I met him at the Center for Development Economics at Williams College in 1977 where he gave a lecture about a the CES production function. He chat for hours with us. An incredible economist and human being who had a great influence on my thinking on economic development.

Thanks for sharing this. Such brilliant scientists motivate me to study economics..

He was a joy to listen to. A gifted man.

Such an inspiring man and brilliant mind. There should be more Solows in this world

interesting thanks for posting this!

Awesome interview!

Ppl graduated at 16 back then because they didn't have AP classes lol. Got here from J Bravo video, cool to learn about Solow. Thank you youtube recommendation!

RIP.

I like this guy. He's quite humble unlike another guy Paul something. Serious serious brain.

A war hero x

He is groot

He seemed like a genuinely nice person in this interview. Nevertheless, like Krugman, he seemed to let his politics drive his methodology, which is why he was always so snarky when it came to Robert Lucas and the rational expectations program, and why MIT became weak in macro relative to CMU, Minnesota, and Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s.

Love the music, hate the stabbings. Shout out to all my opps as they have BM’s too. Always got to keep my Rambo in the drawer, only to use on onions & garlic. Keeping that flav’r fresh & drippy. Bando always on lock & whip tank’d. Make sure to always keep your cuz in check whether opp or not. Hold tight the south, west, north & east.

RIP

Robert Solow : Economic Technology Genius ! But she is not explane process justice go economic for alls !

He found getting As at Harvard easy! Why are there still problems in the world with people this clever ?

This dude’s head is all stretched out

According to Solow, “Earlier generations are entitled to draw down the pool (optimally, of course!) so long as they add (optimally, of course!) to the stock of reproducible capital” [1]. Throughout his career, Solow has been a consistent apologist for the destruction of our living environment for the accumulation of artificial, man-made rubbish. This ideology has brought human civilization to such a state of existential crisis that we have taken a complete about-turn. The Paris Agreement promises to re-plant massive tracts of the very same forests that Solow vociferously justified destroying for the production of skycrapers, plastic packaging, highways and toxic chemicals. Such people are embraced by the megalomanic because they make psychopathy sound good. But the horrific consequences of these thoughts will only become more obvious as our natural ecosystems falter and collapse, a process which is already underway. Neo-classical economics is the result of generational hypnosis and dysfunctional neocortex. Unfortunately, many are swayed by accolades. But whatever psychological manipulations are at play in this video, the fact remains that shopping malls do not replace the water cycle; a network of highways does not replace atmospheric oxygen. [1] Solow, R.M., 1974. Intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources. Review of Economic Studies Symposium, p. 41.