Toward a history of applied economics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Backhouse, Roger, 1951- (Editor), Biddle, Jeff (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:History of political economy. Supplement ; 2000.
Subjects:
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.