Word: solow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indeed, Solow may not have been honored for his economics work if had not been for the sociopolitical climate of the period...
...When I came to Harvard in September of 1940, everyone knew the whole society was in deep trouble," Solow says. "The Depression had just ended and the War had just begun. We were ever aware of economic problems...
...course, it wasn't just the national situation that pushed Solow toward his chosen field of economics...
...intended to major in biology, but I wasn't good enough. So I took a freshman economics course," Solow says...
...Solow's first reaction, however, was somewhat more subdued...