Multidisciplinary Economics: The Birth of a New Economics Faculty in the Netherlands -- Opening Address -- Historical Mistakes Rectified -- Tjalling C. Koopmans: An Inspiring Example -- Styles of Research in Economics at Cowles -- Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University -- Origins and Development of Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University -- Multidisciplinary Economic Research at Utrecht University -- Spanning Multidisciplinary Economics: The Institutional, Historical and Spatial Dimensions of Economics -- Towards a European Social Model -- Dutch Debates: Modernising Social Security by Introducing the Life Course as a Frame of Reference -- Learning to Trust -- The Truth About Markets -- The State of the Industrial Organization Field -- On the Dynamics of Innovation Policy: A Dutch Perspective -- ‘History Friendly’ Models of Industrial Evolution: An Overview -- Public Governance and Private Governance: Exchanging Ideas -- Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy and Government Debt -- Joys and Pains of Public Debt -- European Integration and Economic Geography: Theory and Empirics in the Regional Convergence Debate -- An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe -- Regulation and the Role of Central Banks in an Increasingly Integrated Financial World -- Who is Running the IMF: Crtical Shareholders or the Staff? -- Synthetic Money -- Health, Wealth, and the Role of Institutions -- Organisational Economics in an Age of Restructuring, or: How Corporate Strategies Can Harm Your Economy -- Does Social Security Crowd out Private Savings? -- Will the Dutch Level out Their One and Only Mountain? -- The Global Market for Capital: Friend or Foe -- From Koopmans to Krugman: International Economics and Geography.