Includes bibliographical references.

About the editors -- Coeditor's foreword : Reflections on how biographies of individual scholars can relate to a science's biography / Paul A. Samuelson -- Coeditor's preface : An overview of the objectives and contents of the volume / William A. Barnett -- History of thought introduction : economists talking with economists : an historian's perspective / E. Roy Weintraub -- The interviews -- 1. An interview with Wassily Leontief / interviewed by Duncan K. Foley -- 2. An interview with David Cass / interviewed by Steven E. Spear and Randall Wright -- 3. An interview with Robert E. Lucas, Jr. / interviewed by Bennett T. McCallum -- 4. An interview with Jâanos Kornai / interviewed by Olivier Blanchard -- 5. An interview with Franco Modigliani / interviewed by William A. Barnett and Robert Solow -- 6. An interview with Milton Friedman / interviewed by John B. Taylor -- 7. An interview with Paul A. Samuelson / interviewed by William A. Barnett -- 8. An interview with Paul A. Volcker / interviewed by Perry Mehrling --

9. An interview with Martin Feldstein / interviewed by James M. Poterba -- 10. An interview with Christopher A. Sims / interviewed by Lars Peter Hansen -- 11. An interview with Robert J. Shiller / interviewed by John Y. Campbell -- 12. An interview with Stanley Fischer / interviewed by Olivier Blanchard -- 13. An interview with Jacques Dráeze / interviewed by Pierre Dehez and Omar Licandro -- 14. An interview with Thomas J. Sargent / interviewed by George W. Evans and Seppo Honkapohja -- 15. An interview with Robert Aumann / interviewed by Sergiu Hart -- 16. Conversations with James Tobin and Robert J. Shiller on the "Yale tradition" in macroeconomics / conducted by David Colander.