Zachary Crockett hosts the Economics of Everyday Things podcast. This week he talks with Robert Solo, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and mentor to generations of students at MIT. The show is sponsored by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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.