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Robert Solow, an Uncommon card
Robert Merton Solow was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 136
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 136 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Solow quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Solow card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the ______ Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 on.
Answer
Massachusetts. He was Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 on. From the Robert Solow article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Robert Merton Solow was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the ____ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Answer
1980s. Robert Merton Solow was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. From the Robert Solow article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 on.
- He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1987, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
- Five of his PhD students, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, William Nordhaus and Robert Hall, later received Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economic Sciences in their own right.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert Solow article was read about 50,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Robert Solow
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Text : Wikipedia, Robert Solow (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Olaf Storbeck from Düsseldorf, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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