In the 1930s, you were attracted to communism and Trotskyism. Were you ever close to following that path? No, but that's purely accident. I had absolutely no interest in communism at all. To me, communism was a manifestation of organized political power ... Lenin was already the problem, not the solution.
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.