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

Samuel Bowles, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, discusses his deep-rooted interest in economic inequality and how his work has challenged many of the conventional assumptions of modern economic theory. 

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/032-TWGO-Bowles_transcript.pdf

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

Samuel Bowles on his deep interest in the causes of inequality & his work to transform economics

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