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 thinking ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2026 issue of The Independent Review. The star of Christopher Jones’s The Invention of Infinite Growth is economist Robert Solow, whose widely used ...

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 ...