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 Willis, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Michigan, joins the podcast to discuss his time as a seaman working the Washington State Ferries, his path to economics, and the origins of the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-02/022-TWGO-Willis_transcript.pdf

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

Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics

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