Other economists, including Robert Solow, have reviewed this book and picked nits about the breath of its economic analysis.

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James Tobin was a member, Robert Solow was a staff economist, and consultant economists included Kenneth Arrow and Paul Samuelson.

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In another context, Robert Solow, a Nobel prize-winner, has noted the tendency of economists to congratulate themselves for retrieving juicy plums that they themselves planted in the pudding.

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Robert Solow was once asked (by a very famous mathematician whose name I have forgotten) whether there was anything in the social sciences that was not obvious or trivial.

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Robert Solow is another Nobel Prize winner.

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