Inside the Economist’s Mind
2 May 2007 at 9:38 am Peter G. Klein 1 comment
| Peter Klein |
No, not a dark, scary place, but a book of interviews by Paul Samuelson and William Barnett: Inside the Economist’s Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists (Blackwell, 2006). The subjects are Wassily Leontief, David Cass, Robert Lucas, János Kornai, Franco Modigliani, Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, Paul Volcker, Martin Feldstein, Chris Sims, Robert Shiller, Stanley Fishcher, Jacques Drèze, Thomas Sargent, Robert Aumann, James Tobin, and Robert Shiller. Here is the Amazon link. Here is the authors’ blog. Here is a review by Mike Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan.
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Carl Marks | 2 May 2007 at 10:35 pm
Conversations With Leading Economists : Interpreting Modern Macroeconomics is also a good collection of interviews that I couldn’t seem to put down. This book has James Tobin — N. Gregory Mankiw — Milton Friedman — Robert E. Lucas Jr — Alberto Alesina — Robert W. Clower — John B. Taylor — David C. Colander — Olivier Blanchard — Franco Modigliani — Edward C. Prescott — Robert M. Solow — Paul M. Romer — Mark Blaug.