Inside the economist's mind : conversations with eminent economists / edited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett.

Includes bibliographical references.

History of thought introduction : economists talking with economists : an historian\'s perspective / E. Roy Weintraub -- An interview with Wassily Leontief / interviewed by Duncan K. Foley -- An interview with David Cass / interviewed jointly by Steven E. Spear and Randall Wright -- An interview with Robert E. Lucas, Jr. / interviewed by Bennett T. McCallum -- An interview with Jaþnos Kornai / interviewed by Olivier Blanchard -- An interview with Franco Modigliani / interviewed by William A. Barnett and Robert Solow -- An interview with Milton Friedman / interviewed by John B. Taylor -- An interview with Paul A. Samuelson / interviewed by William A. Barnett -- An interview with Paul A. Volcker / interviewed by Perry Mehrling -- An interview with Martin Feldstein / interviewed by James M. Poterba -- An interview with Christopher A. Sims / interviewed by Lars Peter Hansen -- An interview with Robert J. Shiller / interviewed by John Y. Campbell -- An interview with Stanley Fischer / interviewed by Olivier Blanchard -- An interview with Jacques Dre`ze / interviewed by Pierre Dehez and Omar Licandro -- An interview with Thomas J. Sargent / interviewed by George W. Evans and Seppo Honkapohja -- An interview with Robert Aumann / interviewed by Sergiu Hart -- Conversations with James Tobin and Robert J. Shiller on the Yale tradition in macroeconomics / conducted by David Colander.

This volume is compiled by Paul A. Samuelson, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics. He brings together a collection of peer interviews to create an account of the development of modern economics and gives a personal history of those who helped found it.