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.

Une conjecture frequemment enoncee concerne l'effet des variations du cout du travail non-qualifie sur la demande a long terme de ce travail : l'application de modeles macroeconomiques, calibres a l'aide d'estimations des elasticites de substitution entre facteurs de production, devrait...

Three topics exemplify how knowledge of employment draws on various disciplines, which are so led to intimate collaboration, mainly on economics, statistics and econometrics. In order to distinguish between "frictional unemployment" and "disequilibrium unemployment", it is convenient to refer to...