Robert Solow Quotes

If 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.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

The 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.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.