"You gave me the belief that no matter how complex an author or a creator says something is, that deep down, it's really simple. You just have to find the basic thing that's happening," he said. "If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't try teaching it."
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.