Toward a history of applied economics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | History of political economy. Supplement ;
2000. |
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Table of 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 anaylsis / Steven G. Medema
- Eclecticism, inconsistency, and innovation in the history of geographical economics / Stephen J. Meardon.