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

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