2023 continues to be a dangerous year for eminent economists. We have once again lost a Nobel laureate who was influential even by the standard of Nobelists, Robert Solow:

I’m sure you will soon see many tributes that discuss his namesake Solow Model (MR already has one), or discuss him as a person. I never got to meet him (just saw him give a talk) and the Solow Model is well known, so I thought I’d take this occasion to discuss one of his lesser-known papers- “Sustainability: An Economists Perspective“. What follows comes from my 2009 reaction to his paper:

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