I use you as a model of how I'd like to grow old. You're 98 years old, as we speak. It seems like you haven't lost a step mentally. Do you think that's just luck? Or because you've been so intellectually active? That's not quite right. But I was certainly sharper when I was younger than I am now. And God knows not as quickly.
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.