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Interview transcript Professor Solow, very welcome to this interview. Professor Robert Solow: Thank you. I’m honoured to meet you. Professor Robert Solow: Yes, thank you, it’s a pleasure. Your lecture here in Lindau has been about low wage workers in high income countries. That is a typical Western World scenario. In Germany,…

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I was born on September 30 1939 in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ and became later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and…

21 October 1987 has decided to award the 1987 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Robert M. Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, for his contributions to the theory of economic growth. The study of the factors which permit production growth and increased welfare has been a central feature in economic…

I was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 23, 1924, the oldest of three children. My parents were themselves the children of immigrants. They had to earn a living as soon as they finished secondary school. So my sisters, my cousins and I were the first generation of our family to attend a university.…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Karl-Göran Mäler of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Economic growth has in a dramatic way transformed the society and given us possibilities and freedom that only a few generations ago were not thought of. For better or worse the situation for man…

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