Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics

Philosophy of economics

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 at the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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. He is a noted scholar in the history of economics and economic methodology

Economic methodology

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 and has published in the economics of Keynes

Keynesian economics

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, disequilibrium macroeconomics

General disequilibrium

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, and the history

History of the social sciences

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 of recent (post-1945) social science.

Reviews of his approach

His approach to the History of Economic Thought has been reviewed by E. Roy Weintraub

E. Roy Weintraub

E. Roy Weintraub is an American economist and mathematician. He works as a Professor of Economics in Duke University.Weintraub was trained as a mathematician though his professional career has been as an economist. In recent years his research and teaching activities have focused upon the history...

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Editorships

He is an Associate Editor of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008) and is also Book Review Editor of the Economic Journal, an editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Noted textbooks

(1985) A History of Modern Economic Analysis, Oxford: Blackwell

(1994) Economists and the Economy 2nd ed., New Brunswick: Transaction

(1997) Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

(1991) Applied UK Macroeconomics Blackwell Publishers

(2001) Macroeconomics and the Real World Volume 1: Econometric Techniques and Macroeconomics and Volume 2: Keynesian Economics, Unemployment, and Policy, Oxford University Press Edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Andrea Salanti

(2010) The History of the Social Sciences since 1945, Cambridge University Press, Edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine.