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Among the most respected critics is Andrew Solow, a statistician at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Policy Center in Massachusetts. Solow asserts that the computer models used to predict the greenhouse effect are so weak that they cannot even account for the modest 0.5 degrees C warming that has occurred over the past 100 years. "We all believe in the physics of the greenhouse effect," says Solow, "but to say almost anything about timing, the magnitude of change or its geographic distribution is more than...
...lived for years in contented obscurity, many prominent economists welcomed his selection. Said Lawrence Klein of the University of Pennsylvania, who won the 1980 economics award for his work in econometrics: "Haavelmo had a tremendous influence on me and on many other young econometricians in the 1940s." Concurred Robert Solow of the Massachusetts $ Institute of Technology, the 1987 laureate: "It's like giving the Nobel Prize for Physics to Thomas Edison. You slap your forehead and wonder why they didn't do it sooner...
...Everyone I talk to has the same feeling, that there is something sick about a society where you can get filthy rich by doing this sort of deal," said MIT's 1987 Economics Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow in the same article. "It is an activity about as far from Florence Nightingale as you can get, and that is what underlies the discomfort people feel...
...intended it ironically, as he obviously had not. Some critics began speaking of the President in tones of contempt. Said a Wall Street money manager during the midst of the crash: "You sell and get what you can and never again listen to Ronald Reagan." M.I.T. Professor Robert Solow, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week, took the occasion to criticize Reagan's long, obstinate resistance to tax increases thought necessary by many to trim the budget deficit and thus restore confidence. The President, said Solow, "is holding the Congress back from slow access of intelligence...
Poet Joseph Brodsky, a Soviet emigre who is now a U. S. citizen, gets the literature award. -- M. I. T.' s Robert Solow wins in economics...