The request for help below is from Paul Grimes <[log in to unmask]>.

-- 
Humberto Barreto



Colleagues -

Bill Becker, Brent Evans and I are revising a paper which we presented
earlier this month at the AEA's teaching conference at Stanford.  The
paper concerns the motivations which led eminent economists into the
profession.  Our sample is missing several Nobel Laureates.  We are
looking for first-person accounts as to why they decided to study
economics in college and why they decided to pursue economics as a
profession.  After checking all the familiar and commonly cited
sources (such as the official Nobel biographies) we did not locate
enough good information to answer these questions for the following
group:

Haavelmo, Trygve
Hicks, Sir John
Miller, Merton
Mundell, Robert
Spence, Michael
Vickrey, William
Diamond, Peter
Mortensen, Dale
Pissarides, Christopher

If anyone on the list is aware of a solid source of a first-person
account from any of these individuals, your help in pointing us in the
right direction will be greatly appreciated!  Thanks so much!!

Paul