Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent EconomistsISBN: 978-1-4051-5917-3
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456 pages
December 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Stephen Kinsella, University of Limerick
"A wonderful collection of personal and professional insights by
Economics' leading intellectuals. Each one is worth reading."
Professor Mark Watson, Princeton University
"In candid interviews, these great economists prove to be
fabulous storytellers of their lives and times. Unendingly gripping
for insiders, this book should also help non-specialists understand
how economists think."
Julio Rotemberg, Harvard University Business School
"The interviews in this volume are unique intellectual documents
in the history of economic thought, economic policy, and biography.
Scholars will value them as primary sources. Readers with only a
passing interest in economics will be delighted by their
entertaining insights into the minds and lives of these great
thinkers. This is one of the most valuable projects in academic
economic publishing for a long time, and we should all be grateful
to the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, for collecting these
archival treasures over a number of years."
Professor Douglas Gale, New York University
"Economics has made swift progress in the past few
decades and its role in policy-making has radically increased. The
interviews of many of the most prominent researchers and
policy-makers offer a unique insider view of these developments.
This book is fascinating reading to anyone interested in
contemporary economics and its role in modern societies."
Seppo Honkapohja, University of Cambridge
"Economics used to be called the 'dismal science'. It will be
impossible for anybody to hold that view anymore after reading
these interviews. This is science with flesh and blood, and a lot
of fascinating stories that you will find nowhere else."
Dr. Jean-Pascal Bénassy, Paris-Jourdan Sciences
Économiques (PSE) and Centre pour la Recherche Economique et
ses Applications
"This book provides a rare and intriguing view of the personal
and professional lives of leading economists, and the circumstances
that facilitated their creative breathroughs. It is like A
Beautiful Mind, scaled by a factor of 16 [the number of interviews
in the book]."
Professor Lee Ohanian, UCLA
"Histories of economic analysis abound, but if you want an
insider view of how economics has been developing in the last
decades, this is the (only) book for you."
Giancarlo Gandolfo, University of Rome
"Here we see the human side of path-breaking research, the
personalities and pitfalls, the drama behind the science."
Professor Francis X. Diebold, University of
Pennsylvania
"These 25-page conversations quickly hone in on what makes these leading economists from the academic world and public policy corridors tick, and how they--and the profession itself--evolved in research and thinking." CHOICE