.... Marcuzzo, L. L. Pasinetti, and A. Roncaglia. London and New York: Routledge. Campbell, M. 1989 . Sources of Controversy in Applied Economics. In Controversy in Applied Economics , edited by M. Campbell, M. Hardy, and N. Healey. New York: Wheatsheaf. Deane, P. 1968 . Aggregate Comparisons...

...] 1993 . The Culture and the Economists: Some Reflections on Anglo-American Differences . In vol. 2 of The Sociology and Professionalization of Economics: British and American Essays, edited by A. W. Coats. London and New York: Routledge. Devons, Eli. 1961 . Applied Economics: The Application...

... University Press. Young, W., and F. Lee. 1993 . Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists . Basingstoke:Macmillan. Applied Economics in a Political Economy Tradition: The Case of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1950s Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow, and Alan Hutton The two most common understandings...

...., and G. McMahan. 1992 . Theoretical Perspectives for Strategic Human Resource Management. Journal of Management 18.2 : 295 -320. Part 3 Applied Fields Personnel/Human Resource Management: Its Roots as Applied Economics Bruce E. Kaufman Personnel management, as the name implies...

...Roger E. Backhouse; Béatrice Cherrier This article challenges the widely held notion that developments in computing are sufficient to explain the recent turn to applied economics. Advances in computer hardware were undoubtedly necessary, and they were sufficient to ensure that there were...

...Jonathan S. Franklin By no means exclusive, the tendency of agricultural economists to emphasize the field’s historic commitment to applied economics is nonetheless intriguing and worthy of further exploration. If agricultural economists have demonstrated the ability to translate “practical...

.... The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents Thomas C. Leonard Disagreements among economists rarely breach the academy’s walls. The recent minimum-wage controversy is a significant exception. At first glance, all the sound and fury is a puzzle.1...

... of empirical work: it involves a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work, which raised the prestige of the latter. The meaning of economic theory and applied work and the boundaries between them changed as theory and empirical work alike became more applied in the sense...

... Press. Senior, Nassau William. [1836] 1951 . An Outline of the Science of Political Economy . New York: Kelley. From Muddling Through to the Economics of Control: Views of Applied Policy from J. N. Keynes to Abba Lerner David Colander This essay tells a story of changing views about...

... Histories of an Applied Field: The Case of Health Economics Evelyn L. Forget The more applied and practical a field of economics is, the less relevant history seems. Analysts who deal with a constantly shifting institutional environment, seeking solutions to problems that were not even conceiv...

... in the 1950s made economics a viable alternative to applied mathematics in an institute mostly dedicated to research in pure mathematics. The article examines how interests in mathematical economics remained active during IMPA's expansion beginning in the late 1960s. This process culminated with the creation...

... 0 1991 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/91/$1.50 Cultural Theory as Applied to the History of Economic Thought: A Case Study John W. Houghton The social scientific study of scientific and/or disciplinary knowledge appears to be fraught...

... derived various criticisms of the Spain of the last Habsburgs (the excessive taxes that undermined economic activity, the rigidly stratified society that hindered social ascent, the continuous squandering of resources in costly foreign wars, the widespread illiteracy among a large part of the population...

... with some of the ensuing methodological disputes. The history of AGE analysis reveals how a number of developments, including computerization, have profoundly shaped applied economics. We examine the forces that came together to produce the early growth of AGE analysis, and we consider possible explanations...

... for applying economic theory to reveal insights into concrete economic events that have taken place over time. Correspondence may be addressed to Michael McLure, University of Western Australia, Economics M251, 35 Stirling Highway, WA 6009, Australia; e-mail: [email protected] . I would like...

... of The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) that would apply the arguments of the book to the specific institutional framework of the United States (Van Horn and Mirowski 2009 : 143–58). In line with Eucken's plea to Hayek after The Road to Serfdom to become more concrete on the domains of economic policy...

...Stefan Kolev [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 The four articles that constitute this minisymposium reconstruct the politico-economic discourses of Walter Eucken (1891–1950), Henry C. Simons (1899–1946), Jan Tinbergen (1903–94), and Ludwig M...

... the methods that should be applied in the explanation of economic phenomena. The roots of his teacher's hostility can be traced back to the Berlin years when in 1923, in the midst of hyperinflation, Eucken published Kritische Betrachtungen zum deutschen Geldproblem ( Critical Considerations of the German...

...Matthew T. Panhans; John D. Singleton While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward “quasi-experimental” methods in applied microeconomics. Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke trumpet the wide...

...Paul Erickson This paper makes two related points about the nature of application that are potentially relevant to assessing the recent “applied turn” in economics. First, it draws upon the historiography of the sciences to suggest the kind of rhetorical work performed by distinctions between “pure...