Inside the Economist's Mind

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Inside the Economist's Mind is a very rare thing--an economic page-turner. The personalities behind the frontiers of economic research make for compelling reading. I cannot recommend it highly enough. 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