Research Catalog

Title

Toward a history of applied economics / edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Backhouse, Roger, 1951-
• Biddle, Jeff.

Description

vi, 390 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

History of political economy, 0018-2702 ; annual suppl. to v. 32

Uniform Title

History of political economy. Annual supplement ; 2000.

Subject

Economics > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The concept of applied economics : a history of ambiguity and multiple meanings / Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle -- Economics for a client : the case of statistical quality control and sequential analysis / Judy L. Klein -- Atomic energy and the application of early models of technological change in economics, 1946-1954 / Warren Young -- Why do empirical results change? : forecasts as tests of rational expectations / Robert S. Goldfarb and H.O. Stekler -- The very idea of applying economics : the modern minimum-wage controversy and its antecedents / Thomas C. Leonard -- On the concept of applied economics : lessons from Cambridge economics and the history of growth theories / Flavio Comim -- Applied economics in a political economy tradition : the case of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1950s / Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow, and Alan Hutton -- Strategic games from theory to application / Robert W. Dimand -- Personnel/human resource management : its roots as applied economics / Bruce E. Kaufman -- A portrait of the economics of education, 1960-1997 / Pedro Nuno Teixeira -- "Related disciplines" : the professionalism of public choice analysis / Steven G. Medema -- Eclecticism, inconsistency, and innovation in the history of geographical economics / Stephen J. Meardon.

Call Number

JBE 01-1032

ISBN

0822364859

OCLC

46667598

Title

Toward a history of applied economics / edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle.

Imprint

Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.

Series

History of political economy, 0018-2702 ; annual suppl. to v. 32

History of political economy. Annual supplement ; 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Backhouse, Roger, 1951- Editor

Biddle, Jeff. Editor

Research Call Number

JBE 01-1032