Books written by Roger E. Backhouse
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The History of the Social Sciences since 1945
Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 2003a. British geography 1500–1900: an imprecise review. ... Longley, P., Goodchild, M., Maguire, D. and Rhind, D. W. (eds). 1999. Geographical information systems: principles, techniques, applications and ...
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Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
Venturing beyond physics, Bridgman opined, I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations. It would doubtless conduce ...
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Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: Exploring Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956-2003
The Phillips curve, computed as an empirical relationship found in nearly a century of British data, was introduced by the LSE economist A. W H. (Bill) Phillips in 1958. His conclusion was that, except in years when imported inflation ...
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Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: Exploring Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956–2003
MIT industrial economist and econometrician Franklin Fisher, in a book, Disequilibrium Foundations ofEquilibrium Economics (1983), that drew on over a decade of work on the subject, was still prepared to argue, on purely theoretical ...
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Interpreting Macroeconomics: Explorations in the History of Macroeconomic Thought
Quantity theorists such as Fisher argued that changes in M led to changes in the level of income, PT.15 To do this they argued that (1) M' was related to M, and (2) that V and V' were stable. Hobson's arguments, discussed above, ...
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The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology?
Mathematics played a role, but a limited one, symbolized by Marshall's refusal, in his Principles of Economics (1920) to allow mathematics into the main text (it was confined to footnotes and appendices). However, there was another view ...
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Economics and Language
The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language within economics in a practical and theoretical way.
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John Maynard Keynes: Un capitalista revolucionario
En Capitalist Revolucionary se ofrece un acercamiento al pensamiento y la obra de John Maynard Keynes, prestigioso economista del siglo XX, que transformó la teoría y la praxis económica y lo sigue haciendo, pues sus ideas son pilar en ...
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Economics and Methodology
This volume brings economics and methodology closer together through a series of six methodological case studies, each of which is discussed by practitioner in the relevant field, and a specialist in methodology.
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Explorations in Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science
1 INTRODUCTION Modernism and postmodernism are clearly such important phenomena in twentiethcentury culture that it ... to overrun the boundaries of modern economics and that, therefore, represent the postmodern moments of uncertainty.
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Macroeconomics and the Real World: Volume 2
In recent years, one chosen battleground (data to be explained) has been the business cycle and growth. Many of the earlier RBC models completely ignored data and issues that were seen as important by others (e.g. the nominal and ...
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A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences
Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond (Staum, 2011), 81 Nature, the Exotic, and the Science ofFrench Colonialism (Osborne, 1994), 81 Nazism, 33, 43, 82 neocolonialism, 72 “Neumann, John von”, 201 New Freud ...
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No Wealth But Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945
This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of welfare economics in Britain, arguing that it needs to be considered alongside the movement toward a welfare state.
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The Unsocial Social Science?: Economics and Neighboring Disciplines Since 1945
Aims to widen the conversation about the history of economics both substantively and historiographically.
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Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics
Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values explores the reasons and implications of this, drawing on concepts of welfarism and non-welfarism developed in modern welfare economics.
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Liberalism and the Welfare State: Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State
This volume explores the early history of welfare thinking from the British New Liberals of the early twentieth century, German Ordoliberals and post-war Japanese Liberal economists.
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Interpreting Macroeconomics: Explorations in the History of Macroeconomic Thought
The book considers a number of historiographical and methodological positions, as well as analyzing various important episodes in the development of macroeconomics, before during and after the Keynesian revolution.
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The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century - New Edition
This updated edition of The Ordinary Business of Life includes a new chapter on contemporary economics and the rest of the book has been thoroughly revised.
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The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers
The book will be warmly welcomed by students and teachers alike.
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The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers
The book will be warmly welcomed by students and teachers alike.