Interviews with Economists, 1984-2023

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Series consists of subject files, project papers, audiocassettes, and electronic files containing and related to Keith Tribe's interviews with British economists, mostly men, originally conducted for his 1997 book Economic Careers. Subject files, project papers, and electronic files contain biographical information about the interviewees, correspondence, and transcriptions, including edits to transcriptions made by the interviewees before publication. Not all interviews were included in Economic Careers, and those that were included were heavily edited. Some of the subject files also have photographs of the economists, and in the cases of Michael Kaser and Marjorie Tivey, copies of their manuscript notes from the 1940s are included as well. Original recordings of the interviews are contained on audiocassettes.

In the interviews, economists discuss their academic studies of economics, detailing the courses they took, works they studied, who their classmates and professors were, and more. They also discuss their careers as professors, providing insight into the development of economics as a discipline in Great Britain, as well as their careers in civil service, from the 1920s to the 1960s. The interviews also contain biographical information about each subject.

Other materials related to Tribe's interviews with British economists can be found in the Podcasts file of the Teaching, Conferences, and Professional Projects series, and in the Constructing Economic Science file of the Writings series.

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