The
Emile
Grunberg
Lecture
Series
| Sixth Grunberg Lecture - April 23, 1993
Professor Robert Solow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 1987
"How Low Can Unemployment Get?
The Nobel committee cited Professor Solow's work in identifying the factors
important to economic growth. His work showed the significance of
technological change in the growth process. Professor Solow specializes in
macroeconomics, growth theory, and the theory of natural resource use. He has
served as Senior Economist to the President's Council of Economic Advisers,
has been a board member or adviser to the Public Interest Economics Center,
the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston, and the Sierra Club.
Some of the books for which he is most noted include Capital Theory and the
Rate of Return (1963); Growth Theory: An Exposition (1970); Made in
America: Regaining the productive Edge (1989, with M. Dertouzos, R. Lester
and the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity); and The Labor Market as
a Social Institution (1990).
(Click a lecture for more information.)
| The First Lecture,
1988, Herbert A.
Simon (Nobel
1978) | The Second
Lecture, 1989,
William Cooper
(Von Neumann
Medal 1982) | The Third Lecture,
1990, Franco
Modigliani (Nobel
1985) | The Fourth
Lecture, 1991,
Richard Cyret |
| The Fifth Lecture,
1992, James Tobin
(Nobel 1981) | The Sixth Lecture,
1993, Robert Solow
(Nobel 1987) | The Seventh
Lecture, 1994,
Kenneth Arrow
(Nobel 1972) | The Eighth
Lecture, 1995,
Lawrence Klein
(Nobel 1980) |
| The Ninth Lecture,
1996, Harry M.
Markowitz (Nobel
1990) | The Tenth Lecture,
1997, Douglass C.
North (Nobel 1993) | The Eleventh
Lecture, 1998,
James A. Mirrlees
(Nobel 1996) | The Twelveth
Lecture, 1999,
Robert W. Fogel
(Nobel 1993) |
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