Have you ever wondered how football clubs decide what to charge for match tickets? Or why people pay so much for designer T-shirts? Have you ever considered why new inventions are patented? If the answer is 'yes' to any of these questions, then you have already been thinking about how economics wor[...]

The authors provide an introductory essay outlining the development of macroeconomics since the 1930s, and the themes occur and re-occur in the following interviews with some of the principal agenda setters of macroeconomic research.[...]