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

Robert T. Michael, the Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, joins the podcast to discuss his path to the University of Chicago, why he loves teaching, and the challenges of collecting vital data on sensitive topics like human sexual behavior.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-04/027-TWGO-Michael_transcript.pdf  

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-michael-2024

Robert Michael on collecting specialized data to inform public policy

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