Robert SolowWhy does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?371Sadness
Robert SolowIt is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with … ▶272HumanityThought
Robert SolowThere is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way316Reading
Robert SolowYou can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. ✨ The benefits of internet innovation are hard to spot in GDP statistics by Joseph Stiglitz, www.… ▶235Reading
Robert SolowIf God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.226Truth
Robert SolowThe world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.172Humanity
Robert SolowBut part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.173Time
Robert SolowThe user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land shoul… ▶208Politics
Robert SolowThe fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.186ThoughtTruth
Robert SolowEverything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper. ✨ Robert Solow on Milton Friedman's ideas and his own… ▶178Thought
