"It's a lonely thing to get very old, but I'm not giving it up," says Robert Solo. "I know it's unlikely, but it at least makes me fantasize about the possibility that I've got another 40 years ... to thrive", he adds. Talking with Robert Solo today left me with such a sense of optimism."
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.