Foreword / by Robert Solow
Introduction / Michael Szenberg and Lall B. Ramrattan
Being there: an intellectual journey / Alan S. Blinder
Social norms in economics and in the economics profession / Clair Brown
Personal reflections on my professional life / John Y. Campbell
Gray eminence? / Vincent P. Crawford
Biochemist to economist / Paul Davidson
Puzzles and paradoxes: a life in applied economics / Angus Deaton
Succeeding in economics / Harold Demsetz
My research strategy / Peter Diamond
My philosophy of economics, life, and everything (not!) / Avinash Dixit
Finding a niche / Barry Eichengreen
see the world / Jeffrey Frankel
Practitioner of the dismal science? Who, me? Couldn't be!! / Richard B. Freeman
One job, four careers / Benjamin M. Friedman
My life and research strategy / John Hull
How I ended up being a multifaceted economist and the mentors I have had / Michael D. Intriligator
Searching for my personal philosophy / Peter B. Kenen
Learning about the evolving international economy / Anne O. Krueger
Confessions of a Wellesley FEM / Helen F. Ladd
God, ants, and Thomas Bayes / Harry M. Markowitz
The path of a monetary economist / Frederic S. Mishkin
Learning from the field / Elinor Ostrom
Order in and through disorder: the invisible hand as a turbulent regulator / Anwar Shaikh
The education of an economist / Jeremy J. Siegel
Faith, science, and religion / Vernon L. Smith
My studies in international economics / Robert M. Stern
Sailing into the wind / Myra H. Strober
My life and work philosophy / Hal R. Varian
Scaling fortress economics / Michelle J. White
The accidental economist / Marina v. N. Whitman.