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The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years

Franco Modigliani Paul A. Samuelson Robert M. Solow HM: September 18, 2000; Running Time: 01:32:57

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Location: Kresge Auditorium

“It’s axiomatic, that always the affluent will hope to use their money power to resist populist demands to have the government help the masses, at their expense. ”

Paul A. Samuelson

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Franco Modigliani

1985 Nobel Prize in Economics

Paul A. Samuelson

1970 Nobel Prize in Economics

Robert M. Solow HM

MIT Institute Professor, Emeritus
1987 Nobel Prize in Economics

Robert M. Solow is renowned for his work in macroeconomics, and for developing economic theories and models involving growth, capital, and linear programming. He worked for many years with MIT colleague Paul Samuelson. Solow won the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Award in 1961, given to the best economist under age 40. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.

Solow received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and came to MIT in 1949.

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