This video highlights a rare appearance of MIT's Nobel Prize-winning economists who gathered together to deliver the inaugural Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture on Sept. 18, 2000 in Kresge Auditorium. Introduced by Chancellor Lawrence S. Bacow, the distinguished economists included Professors Emeriti Paul A. Samuelson, Franco Modigliani and Robert M. Solow. Their lecture was titled "The US Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years."

To view the lecture in its entirety, visit the Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series.