Solow currently is an emeritus Institute Professor in the MIT economics department, and previously taught at Columbia University.
Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. In 1972 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly) for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
Former Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, was on the Yale faculty from 1950. He was graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in economics in 1939. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1947. In 1955 the American Economic Association awarded him the John Bates Clark Medal, given to one economist under age 40. In 1981 he received in Stockholm the Nobe Prize in Economic Science. He was author or editor of sixteen books and more than four hundred articles.
