Solow bibliography, 1950- 23/24
Bibliography of Robert Merton Solow, 1950-[1]
This bibliography is a work in progress, and is being compiled as part of the process of writing the authorised biography of Bob Solow for the Palgrave series, Great Thinkers in Economics. Any help that you might be able to give on incomplete references, or indeed items not herein included, will be very gratefully received. Please email me at <>
1950
Review of Nicholls, W.H. (1948) Labor productivity functions in meat packing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Review of Economics and Statistics, 32 (3), pp. 270-2. [ZX]
‘Economic model-building’ [Review of Klein, L.R. (1950) Economic fluctuations in the United States, 1921-1941. New York: John Wiley], Mechanical Engineering, 72 (12), pp. 990-1. [ZX]
1951
‘A note on dynamic multipliers’, Econometrica, 19 (3), pp. 306-16. [OP]
‘Some long-run aspects of the distribution of wage income’, Econometrica, 19 (3), pp. 333-4. [ZX]
‘On the dynamics of the income distribution’, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. [Z]
Review of Koopmans, T.C. (ed.) (1950) Statistical inference in dynamic economic models. Cowles Commission for Research in Economics Monograph. New York: John Wiley, Review of Economics and Statistics, 33 (4), pp. 358-60. [ZX]
1952
‘On the structure of linear models’, Econometrica, 20 (1), pp. 29-46. [ZX]
Review of Deming, W.E. (1950) Some theory of sampling. New York: Wiley, Review of Economics and Statistics, 34 (2), pp. 193-4. [ZX]
Review of Dorfman, R. (1951) Application of linear programming to the theory of the firm. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 47 (2), pp. 330-2. [ZX]
Review of Koopmans, T.C. (ed.) (1951) Activity analysis of production and allocation. Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University Monograph. New York: Wiley, American Economic Review, 42 (3), pp. 424-9. [ZX]
(with K.J. Arrow, and R.W. Shephard) Abstract: ‘An econometric model of interindustry material flows’, Econometrica, 20 (3), pp. 488-9. [ZX]
Review of Roy, R. (ed.) (1951) Cahiers du séminaire d’econométrie, vol. I. Paris: Librairie de Medicis, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 47 (4), pp. 698-700. [ZX]
1953
‘A note on the price level and interest rate in a growth model’, Review of Economic Studies, 21 (1), pp. 74-9. [ZX]
(with P.A. Samuelson) ‘Balanced growth under constant return to scale’, Econometrica, 21 (3), pp. 412-24. [ZX]
Review of Klein, L.R. (1953) A textbook of econometrics. New York: Row, Peterson & Co., American Economic Review, 43 (5), pp. 947-50. [ZX]
1954
‘A new survey of demand analysis’ [Review of Wold, H. in association with Jureen, L. (1953) Demand analysis: a study in econometrics. New York: John Wiley & Sons], Review of Economics and Statistics, 36 (1), pp. 104-7. [ZX]
Review of Whitin, T.W. (1953) The theory of inventory management. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Econometrica, 22 (2), pp. 252-3. [ZX]
‘The survival of mathematical economics’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 36 (4), pp. 372-4. [ZX]
(with P.A. Samuelson) ‘Dynamic growth under diminishing returns to scale, and balanced growth under constant returns: a brief comment’, Econometrica, 22 (4), p. 504. [ZX]
1955
Review of Haavelmo, T. (1954) A study in the theory of economic evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, American Economic Review, 45 (1), pp. 155-6. [ZX]
‘The production function and the theory of capital’, Review of Economic Studies, 23 (2), pp. 101-8. [ZX]
Review of Tuck, R.H. (1954) An essay on the economic theory of rank. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 50 (3), pp. 995-6. [ZX]
1956
Review of Walras, L. (1954) Elements of pure economics, ed. W. Jaffé. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Econometrica, 24 (1), pp. 87-9. [ZX]
‘A contribution to the theory of economic growth’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 70 (1), pp. 65-94. [ZX]
Review of Prais, S.J. and Houthakker, H.S. (1955) The analysis of family budgets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 51 (2), pp. 398-400. [ZX]
(with P.A. Samuelson) ‘A complete capital model involving heterogeneous capital goods’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 70 (4), pp. 537-62. [ZX]
Review of Peacock, A.T. Stolper, W. F., Turvey, R. and Henderson, E. (eds) (1955) International economic papers, vol. 5. London: Macmillan American Economic Review, 46 (5), pp. 981-3. [ZX]
1957
Review of Schoeffler, S. (1955) The failures of economics: a diagnostic study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Review of Economics and Statistics, 39 (1), pp. 96-8. [ZX]
‘Technical change and the aggregate production function’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 39 (3), pp. 312-20. [ZX]
Review of Hamberg, D. (1956) Economic growth and instability: a study in the problem of capital accumulation, employment and the business cycle. New York: Norton, Econometrica, 25 (4), pp. 612-13. [ZX]
1958
Review of Barna, T. (1956) The structural interdependence of the economy. New York: Wiley, Econometrica, 26 (1), pp. 173-4. [ZX]
Review of Simon, H.A. (1957) Models of man: social and rational. New York: John Wiley, Review of Economics and Statistics, 40 (1), pp. 81-4.ZX]
(with K.J. Arrow) ‘Gradient methods for constrained maxima, with weakened assumptions’, in K.J. Arrow, L. Hurwicz and H. Uzawa (eds) Studies in linear and non-linear programming. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 166-76. [ZX]
(with R. Dorfman and P.A. Samuelson) Linear programming and economic analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill. [ZB]
Review of Koopmans, T.C. (1957) Three essays on the state of economic science. New York: McGraw-Hill, Journal of Political Economy, 66 (2), pp. 178-9. [ZX]
Review of Krelle, W. and Haller, H. (1955) Lohnhöhe und beschäftigung. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, Econometrica, 26 (3), pp. 475-6. [ZX]
‘A skeptical note on the constancy of relative shares’, American Economic Review, 48 (4), pp. 618-31. [ZX]
‘Technical progress and production functions: reply’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 40 (4), pp. 411-13. [ZX]
1959
‘Competitive valuation in a dynamic input-output system’, Econometrica, 27 (1), pp. 30-53. [ZX]
‘On concepts and measures of changes in productivity: comment’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 41 (3), pp. 282-5. [OP]
Review of Weintraub, S. (1958) An approach to the theory of income distribution. Philadelphia: Chilton Co., Journal of Political Economy, 67 (4), pp. 420-1. [ZX]
‘Is factor substitution a crime, and if so, how bad?: reply to Professor Eisner’, Economic Journal, 69 (3), pp. 597-9. [OP]
‘Investment and economic growth: some comments’, Productivity Measurement Review, 19 (November), pp. 62-8. [ZX]
1960
(with P.A. Samuelson) ‘Analytical aspects of anti-inflation policy’, American Economic Review, 50 (2, Papers & Proceedings), pp. 177-94. [OP]
‘Income inequality since the war’, in R.E. Freeman (ed) Postwar economic trends in the United States. New York: Harper & Row, pp. 93-138. [OP]
‘Investment and technical progress’, in K.J. Arrow, S. Karlin and P. Suppes (eds) Mathematical methods in the social sciences, 1959: proceedings of the first Stanford symposium. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 89-104. [ZX]
‘On a family of lag distributions’, Econometrica, 28 (2), pp. 393-406. [OP]
‘On a family of lag distributions: errata’, Econometrica, 28 (3), p. 735. [ZX]
1961
‘Note on Uzawa’s two-sector model of economic growth’, Review of Economic Studies, 29 (1), pp. 48-50. [OP]
(with K.J. Arrow, H.B. Chenery and B.S. Minhas) ‘Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 43 (3), pp. 225-50. [ZX]
‘Education, technology & the GNP’, Technology Review, 63 (April), pp. 17-19, 34, 36. [ZX]
‘Notes towards a Wicksellian model of distributive shares’, in F.A. Lutz and D.C. Hague (eds) The theory of capital: proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association. London: Macmillan, pp. 245-65. [ZX]
1962
‘Some problems of the theory and practice of economic planning’ [Review of Dobb, M. (1960) An essay on economic growth and planning. London: Routledge & Paul], Economic Development and Cultural Change, 10 (2, pt. I), pp. 216-22. [OP]
‘Technical progress, capital formation and economic growth’, American Economic Review, 52 (2, Paper & Proceedings), pp. 76-86. [OP]
‘Problems that don’t worry me’, Technology Review, 64 (July), pp. 43-4, 64. [ZX]
‘Substitution and fixed proportions in the theory of capital’, Review of Economic Studies, 29 (3), pp. 207-18. [OP]
‘Comment’, Review of Economic Studies, 29 (3), pp. 255-7. [ZX]
Review of Bensusan-Butt, D.M. (1960) On economic growth: an essay in pure theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Journal of Political Economy, 70 (3), pp. 313-14. [ZX]
‘Investment for growth’, New Republic, 147 (16), 20 October, pp. 14-15. [ZX]
‘A policy for full employment’, Industrial Relations, 2 (1), pp. 1-14. [OP]
Review of Salter, W.E.G. (1960) Productivity and technical change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Review of Economics and Statistics, 44 (4), pp. 501-2. [ZX]
1963
Capital theory and the rate of return. Amsterdam: North-Holland. [F. DeVries Lectures] [ZB]
‘Economic growth and residential housing’, in US Savings and Loan League (ed.) Conference on savings and residential financing, vol. VI. New York: US Savings and Loan League, pp. 119-47. [ZX]
(with J.H. Kareken) ‘Lags in monetary policy’, in E.C. Brown et al. (eds) Stabilization policies: a series of research studies prepared for the commission on money and credit. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, pp. 14-96. [ZB]
‘Heterogeneous capital and smooth production functions: an experimental study’, Econometrica, 31 (4), pp. 623-45. [Irving Fisher Lecturer, Econometric Society, Dublin, 7 September 1962] [OP]
1964
Review of Harrod, R. (1963) The British economy. New York: McGraw-Hill, Economic Journal, 74 (1), pp. 149-51. [ZX]
The nature and sources of unemployment in the United States. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wicksell. [Wicksell lectures, 14 and 16 April 1964] [ZX]
‘Capital, labor and income in manufacturing’, in NBER (ed) The behavior of income shares: selected theoretical and empirical issues. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 101-42. [OP]
‘Friedman on America’s money’ [Review of Friedman, M. and Schwartz, A.J. (1963) A monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press], The Banker, 114 (November), pp. 710-17. [ZX]
1965
‘Economic behaviour under uncertainty’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, ser. B: Biological sciences, 162 (989), pp. 444-57. [Royal Society Nuffield Lecture, 2 March 1965][OP]
Review of Becker, G.S. (1964) Human capital. New York: Columbia University Press, Journal of Political Economy, 73 (5), pp. 552-3. [OP]
‘Technology and unemployment’, Public Interest, 1 (Fall), pp. 17-26. [ZX]
1966
(with J. Tobin, C.C. von Weizsacker and M. Yaari) ‘Neoclassical growth with fixed factor proportions’, Review of Economic Studies, 33 (2), pp. 79-115. [ZX]
‘The case against the case against the guideposts’, in G.P. Shultz and R.Z. Aliber (eds) Guidelines, informal controls and the market place: policy choices in a full employment economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 41-54. [OP]
‘A hard year for economic policy’, Public Interest, 5 (Fall), pp. 9-12. [ZX]
‘The wage-price issue and the guideposts’, in F.H. Harbison and J.D. Mooney (eds) Critical issues in employment policy: a report of the Princeton manpower symposium, May 12-13 1966. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 57-73. [ZX]
(with J. Tobin, C.C. von Weizsacker and M. Yaari) ‘Errata: neoclassical growth with fixed factor proportions’, Review of Economic Studies, 33 (4), no page no. [ZX]
Review of Hicks, J.R. (1965) Capital and growth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, American Economic Review, 56 (5), pp. 1257-60. [ZX]
1967
(with M.S. Cohen) ‘The behavior of help-wanted advertising’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 49 (1), pp. 108-10. [OP]
‘The interest rate and transition between techniques’, in C.H. Feinstein (ed.) Socialism, capitalism and economic growth: essays presented to Maurice Dobb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 30–9. [OP]
‘Some recent developments in the theory of production’, in M. Brown (ed.) The theory and empirical analysis of production. New York: NBER/Columbia University Press, pp. 25-49. [OP]
‘The new industrial state or son of affluence: discussion and rejoinder’, Public Interest, 9 (Fall), pp. 100-8, 118-19. [OP]
1968
‘The truth further refined: a comment on Marris’, Public Interest, 11 (Spring), pp. 47-52. [OP]
‘Short-run adjustment of employment to output’, in J.N. Wolfe (ed.) Value, capital and growth: papers in honour of Sir John Hicks. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 481-4. [ZX]
‘Distribution in the long and short run’, in J. Marchal and B. Ducros (eds) The distributional of national income: proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association. London: Macmillan, pp. 449-66 (discussion pp. 467-75). [ZX]
‘Recent controversy on the theory of inflation: an eclectic view’, in S.W. Rousseas (ed.) Inflation: its causes, consequences and control. Wilton, CT: Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, pp. 1-17 (discussion pp. 17-29). [Proceedings of a symposium, Department of Economics, New York University, 31 January 1968][OP]
(with J.E. Stiglitz) ‘Output, employment and wages in the short run’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 82 (4), pp. 537-60. [OP]
‘Putting the money supply dispute into its true perspective’, The Times, 23 December, pp. 12. [ZX]
‘Fixed investment in economic growth’, in W.W. Heller (ed.) Perspectives on economic growth. New York: Random House, pp. 209-29. [ZX][Also, in very slightly revised form, in Phelps ed 1969, pp.90–105]
1969
Review of Meade, J.E. (1968) Principles of political economy, vol. II: The growing economy. London: Allen & Unwin, Economic Journal, 79 (1), pp. 120-2. [ZX]
Price expectations and the behavior of the price level. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [University of Manchester lectures] [ZX]
‘Fixed investment and economic growth’, in E.S. Phelps (ed.) The goal of economic growth, rev. edn.. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 90–105. [ZX] [Very slightly revised version of same title in W. Heller ed. 1968, pp. 209–29]
1970
‘Comment’ [on R.J. Gordon, ‘The recent acceleration of inflation and its lessons for the future’], Brookings Papers in Economic Activity, 1, pp. 42-3. [ZX]
(with J.E. Stiglitz) ‘Solow and Stiglitz on employment and distribution: a new romance with an old model?: reply’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84 (1), pp. 153. [ZX]
Growth theory: an exposition. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Radcliffe lectures, University of Warwick, 1969][ZB]
‘On the rate of return: reply to Pasinetti’, Economic Journal, 80 (2), pp. 423-8. [ZX]
Review of Blyth, C.A. (1969) American business cycles, 1945-50. London: Allen & Unwin, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 23 (2), pp. 409-10. [ZX]