Introduction / E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget
pt. 1. Stage setting. Rediscovering intellectual biography
and its limits / Malachi Hacohen
Is autobiography anti-academic and uneconomical? Some thoughts on academic autobiography / Jeremy D. Popkin
pt. 2. Varieties of economists' biographies. Lives in synopsis: the production and use of short biographies by historians of economics / Roger E. Backhouse
The creation of heroes and villains as a problem in the history of economics / Robert W. Dimand
The group life as a genre of economists' life writing / William Coleman
pt. 3. Autobiography and identity. The economy of narrative identity / Paul Johnson Eakin
Using autobiographical statements to investigate the identity of American economists / Mike Reay
The role of oral history in the historiography of heterodox economics / Tiago Mata and Frederic S. Lee
Oral history and the historical reconstruction of Chicago economics / Ross Emmett
pt. 3. Studies in biography. François Quesnay: a "rural Socrates" in Versailles? / Christine Théré and Loïc Charles
Some relationships between a scholar's and an entrepreneur's life: the biography of L. Albert Hahn / Jan-Otmar Hesse
"Between worlds," or an imagined reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about equilibrium and mathematics in the 1920s / Robert Leonard
Maynard and Virginia: a personal and professional friendship / Craufurd D. Goodwin
The intimate space of community: John Maynard Keynes and the arts / Patricia Laurence
pt. 5. The biographer's craft. Biography and autobiography: Harry Johnson / D.E. Moggridge
Life writings: on-the-job training with F.A. Hayek / Bruce Caldwell
Reflections of a Marshall biographer / Peter Groenewegen
A personal afterword / E. Roy Weintraub.