Some of them are listed in

Heinz Rieter: Autobiographien und Memoiren von Ökonomen.
                   (Autobiographies and Memoirs by Economists)

In: Studien zur Entwicklung der ökonomischen Theorie XXII. Ideen, Methoden und
Entwicklungen der Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens. Herausgegeben von
Christian Scheer. Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Neue Folge Band
115/XXII. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2009. 409 S., (2) S. Anz., gr.okt., Kt.


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