Dear all

Very many thanks for the replies on the oral history project. As
suspected, what is out there appears to be scattered, difficult to access
(especially via the web), and with no standard format.

One more (divisive) question, if I may: Are there are any suggestions for
criteria that could be adopted to decide who should be interviewed,
assuming an interview set of say, between 75 and 100 people? There are
perhaps the obvious ones, such as Nobel Prize winners, although even this
would no doubt be contested by some. What about beyond this? Citations? Of
course, there are no hard-and-fast rules in these matters. But could, for
example, the JEL's Classification System be a proxy?

All the best

Bob


On Fri, October 21, 2011 10:03, Dr Robert Anthony Cord wrote:
> Dear all
>
>
> The British Library is currently engaged in a major project which will
> collect the oral histories of 200 eminent British scientists, previously a
>  major gap in the effort to understand the development of British
> science. I can find no equivalent in economics, the closest arguably being
> Ross
> Emmett's Chicago Economics Oral History Project. Is there anything else
> out there and what are the views of the list on this method of research?
>
> All the best
>
>
> Bob
>
>