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In IEconomic Careers, fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain. With experience covering a period from the mid-1920s to the late 1960s, many of the contributors not only provide an insight into the role of university disciplines in the education system, but describe their experience in wartime administration or as government advisors. The result of these interviews is a fascinating picture of the changing shape and role of economics in the twentieth century.