Other Oral History Archives about Economics

The NBER Historical Videos

This collection gathers both recordings of NBER's events and interviews with NBER economists conducted by Claudia Goldin. Interviewees include Gary Becker, Anna Schwartz, Jacob Mincer, and Milton Friedman.  

Economists Life Stories

This project, run by the Berkeley's Oral History Center with the cooperation of the Becker-Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (University of Chicago), features a collection of interviews with economists associated with the "Chicago school" of economics.

UBS Nobel Perspectives

This series includes interview with recent Nobel Laureates but also more ancient ones, including Kenneth Arrow, Wassily Leontief, and Arthur Lewis.

UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research

This large oral history archive hosts several collections, some of which feature interviews with economists -- including a 15-hour interview with Hayek. 

Infinite MIT

Infinite MIT is the oral history channel of MIT. It features a series of recordings and interview of MIT economists, including Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, and Franco Modigliani.

Women Faculty at Berkeley

A series of portrays and transcripts of interviews with Women faculty in Economics at U.C. Berkeley, from different eras.

Columbia Center for Oral History

This large oral history archive includes some collections relevant for economics: a large set of interviews with economists from the World Bank.

Robert Hetzel Oral History Collection

This series of informal interviews was conducted over a decade by Robert Hetzel (Richmond Fed). The list of interviewees includes 80 economists involved with US policymaking in the from the 1970s to the 2000s.

Varia

• An interview with Amartya Sen.

• An interview with Jan Tinbergen.

• An interview with Merrill Murray about US Social Security. Murray, along with Alvin Hansen and others, was involved with the University of Minnesota’s Employment Stabilization Research Institute in the 1930s. 

• A conversation with James Tobin and Robert Shiller. 

• A collective interview with John F. Keynnedy's Council of Economic Advisors (featuring Walter Heller, Paul Samuelson, Gardner Ackley, ...).

• A documentary on Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco, featuring several interviews (including e.g., James Buchanan) and a related book, edited by Manuela Mosca.

• History and philosophy of economic thought also have a vibrant podcasting community:

  • Ceteris Never Paribus

  • Smith and Marx walk into a bar

  • La pause économique (in French, including interviews with Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles)