Interviews with economists

This is the edited transcript of our interview with Paul Romer, on why the US urgently to scale up testing for Covid-19, why he thinks the covid-crisis amounts an intellectual failure, why this economic crisis is not as bad the Great Depression, what economics can do more, and what economists can learn from the crisis.

Welcome! This is the first installment of our interview series "Where is the General Theory of the 21st Century?""Where is the General Theory of the 21st Century?" is an interview series with the aim...