Robert Solow

Preface This volume of readings is designed for instructors who want their students to apply economic theory to the big public policy issues of the day. It selects a relatively small number of major economic problems (poverty, growth, unemployment, gold and international payments, and the like)...

Preface This book has had a very long gestation. For years we have been asked by colleagues to tell them the date of the blessed event. But the miles that separated us, along with many other obligations and intellectual preoccupations, simply made it impossible to speed the birth. Now that it...