In a wide-ranging interview, Robert Solow joins the podcast to talk about the origins of his remarkable career, covering everything from his being “a child of the Great Depression” to leaving Harvard to fight in WWII to his time serving in President Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/007-TWGO-Robert%20Solow%20transcript.pdf 

For more details about this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-solow-2023

Robert Solow on growing up in Brooklyn, fighting Nazis, and everything that came after

Daniel Hamermesh, the Sue Killam Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, joins the podcast to talk to Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter about “the promise” of the four-day work week, how physical appearance affects compensation, and his lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/009-TWGO-Hamermesh%20transcript.pdf

For more details about this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/daniel-hamermesh-2023

Daniel Hamermesh on the overhyped four-day work week and a lifetime of labor economics research

"The Work Goes On" hosted by Orley Ashenfelter

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