In this collection of autobiographical essays, 26 prominent scholars detail their professional development, while offering insight into their lives and philosophies. With candor and humor they relate how they came to the field of economics, as well as how their views have evolved over the years.

In this article the late Kurt Rothschild comments on Joseph Steindl's first paper on economic topics, published in the Austrian "Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie" in 1937. The article is a posthumous publication (with minor editorial corrections) of a manuscript presented by the author in...

The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future...