By — Paul Solman Paul Solman Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/the-economics-week-in-review-with-nobel-laureate-robert-solow Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The economics week in review with Nobel laureate Robert Solow Making Sen$e Mar 14, 2015 12:20 PM EDT An esteemed Harvard economist once said that if the earth were threatened with an alien invasion, he would want Robert Solow to chair the international commission on how to deal with it. What he meant: Solow was the wisest, most sensible person he’d ever met. President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to economist Robert Solow on Nov. 24, 2014. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images. Robert Solow is also an economist who won the Nobel Prize in economics back in 1987 for his “Solow growth model,” a staple of the economics literature. An MIT emeritus professor, he’s semi-retired, but still one of the most acute minds I’ve ever encountered. So on Friday, I visited him at his condo in Lexington, Mass., to record the first of what I hope will be a series of regular conversations on the week’s news in business and economics. This is the first of them. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Paul Solman Paul Solman Paul Solman has been a correspondent for the PBS News Hour since 1985, mainly covering business and economics. @paulsolman
An esteemed Harvard economist once said that if the earth were threatened with an alien invasion, he would want Robert Solow to chair the international commission on how to deal with it. What he meant: Solow was the wisest, most sensible person he’d ever met. President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to economist Robert Solow on Nov. 24, 2014. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images. Robert Solow is also an economist who won the Nobel Prize in economics back in 1987 for his “Solow growth model,” a staple of the economics literature. An MIT emeritus professor, he’s semi-retired, but still one of the most acute minds I’ve ever encountered. So on Friday, I visited him at his condo in Lexington, Mass., to record the first of what I hope will be a series of regular conversations on the week’s news in business and economics. This is the first of them. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now