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Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)

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Party Line

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On Golden Pond

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Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America and the World

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