Roger E. Backhouse
Autor(a) de The Penguin History of Economics
About the Author
Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham and at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of The Ordinary Business of Life and The Penguin Histroy of Economics and co-editor (with Philippe Fontaine) of The History of the Social mostrar mais Sciences since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) among numerous other titles. mostrar menos
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Obras por Roger E. Backhouse
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century (2002) 49 exemplares
Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: Exploring Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956-2003 (2012) 19 exemplares
Explorations in Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science (1998) 19 exemplares
Toward a History of Applied Economics: 2000 Supplement (History of Political Economy Annual Supplement) (2000) 16 exemplares
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson - Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 (2017) 15 exemplares
No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 (2010) 5 exemplares
Interpreting Macroeconomics: Explorations in the History of Macroeconomic Thought (1995) 5 exemplares
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century - New Edition (2024) 3 exemplares
Economics and Methodology: Crossing Boundaries Volume 126 (International Economic Association Series) (1998) 3 exemplares
Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state (2017) 2 exemplares
The Methodology of Economics: Nineteenth-Century British Contributions (History of British Economic Thought) (1997) 1 exemplar
The Debate over Milton Friedman's Theoretical Framework: An Economist's View — Autor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1951
- Sexo
- male
- Local de nascimento
- Suffolk, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Bristol (B.Sc., Social Sciences)
University of Birmingham (Ph.D., Economics) - Ocupações
- economist
university professor - Organizações
- Journal of Economic Methodology
University of Birmingham
Membros
Críticas
The Penguin History of Economics por Roger E. Backhouse
I'll admit I gave up on this one. The first hundred pages or so of clear history and development of economics through ancient times, the medieval era and the enlightenment hit a brick wall halfway through, giving way to dense discussions of money supply and labour value. I couldn't cope with it anymore, which is disappointing because I stopped before the modern Keynesian theory and all that follows. I'll ask an economist friend about that stuff...
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notmyrealname | 1 outra crítica | Nov 16, 2008 |
notmyrealname | 1 outra crítica | Nov 16, 2008 | Unfortunately I didn't pay enough attention to the scope of this book before I started to read it. Within the first three sentences the author makes it clear that this book is about the history of economic thought and ideas, rather than economic phenomena themselves. Perhaps the book should have been entitled 'History of Economic Thought' then. It is clearly a good introduction to that, however since I was hoping for more understanding of economics itself I found myself occasionally without sufficient knowledge of the topics. It can also be rather dry, with one economic 'thinker' following another relentlessly.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 32
- Membros
- 416
- Popularidade
- #58,580
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 90
- Línguas
- 3