Milton Friedman and Gary Becker seem to be destined from birth to be economists. Do you think there's any truth to that theory? My contemporaries are no smarter than any other generation, but they were certainly more focused on the failures of the system.
Robert Solow is 98 years old and a giant among economists. He tells Steve about cracking German codes in World War II, why it’s so hard to reduce inequality, and how his field lost its way.