... Design. International Journal of Social Economics 9.1 : 3 -39. Epstein, R. J. 1987 . A History of Econometrics . Amsterdam: North Holland. Feinstein, C. 1998 . Wage-Earnings in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. In Applied Economics and Public Policy , edited by I. Begg and S. G...

... -72. The Concept of Applied Economics: A History of Ambiguity and Multiple Meanings Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle The Concept of Applied Economics Historically Considered The idea of “applied” economics, that is, the notion that there is a class of activities engaged...

... 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...

... 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...

.... History of Political Economy 47 (supplement) : 99 – 126 . Backhouse R. E. Biddle J. 2000 . “ The Concept of Applied Economics: A History of Ambiguity and Multiple Meanings .” In Toward a History of Applied Economics , edited by Backhouse R. E. Biddle J. , 1 – 24 . History...

... from Theory to Application .” In Toward a History of Applied Economics , edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle . History of Political Economy 32 (supplement): 199 – 226 . Dimand , Robert W. , and Mary Ann Dimand . 1995 . “ Von Neumann and Morgenstern...

... 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...

... of Economics 1920–1960: Viewed through a Survey of Journal Articles.” In From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism, edited by Mary S. Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford. History of Political Economy 30 (supplement): 85–107. Backhouse, Roger, and Béatrice Cherrier. 2017. “The Age of the Applied...

...José Edwards There is a misunderstanding about the meaning of behaviorism in recent discussions on the history of economics and psychology. This essay explores that “behaviorist myth” by highlighting the role of “control” as defined by behaviorists and contrasting their views against those...

...-ranging intellect and a determination to relate the economic history of his motherland to the contemporary problems of developing nations. His most famous essay, “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective,” was an important attempt to draw lessons from the Russian economic experience and apply them...

...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...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hébert Division of labor, in research as well as in teaching, has produced, in economics as elsewhere, an indefinite number of specialities that are usually described as “applied fields.” … These fields may accumulate “private” stocks of facts and methods...

... School of Economics for its hospitality during part of the work on the article. 1. See, e.g., Schumpeter 1954, Jaffé 1977, Niehans 1990, Ingrao and Israel 1990, Mandler 1999, Giocoli 2003, and Moscati 2007. History of Political Economy 45:3  DOI 10.1215/00182702-2334740 Copyright 2013 by Duke...

... environments). He also studies the history of environmental and other applied economics. His work has been published in such journals as the American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Urban Economics, and History of Political...

... the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2002), and he edited (with Jeff Biddle) Toward a History of Applied Economics (Duke University Press, 2000). He is one of the editors of the Journal of Economic Methodology. William J. Barber, Andrews Professor of Economics...

... centuries saw not only the triumph of neoclassical economic theory but also important develop- ments in applied economics and the emergence of a vigorous tradition of economic history. Indeed, it was during these years that the various Correspondence may be addressed to Professor Gerard M. Koot...

... to remind economists of the limitations of theory, and to promote the inductive subjects of economic history and applied economics in the service of social reform. In short, English his- torical economics constituted a primarily ‘ ‘historist reaction” against orthodox English political...

... O. C. 2014 . “ The Early History of Program Evaluation and the Department of Labor .” Industrial & Labor Relations Review 67 ( 3 suppl ).: 574 – 77 . Backhouse R. Biddle J. , eds. 2000 . Toward a History of Applied Economics. Supplemental issue to volume 32 of History...

... used micro-level data to produce empirical knowledge since the postwar era. Beatrice Cherrier is a historian of economics at CNRS, THEMA, University of Cergy Pontoise and an associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique. She researches the history of applied economics in the last decades, including...

... . The Education of Economists: From Undergraduate to Graduate Study. Journal of Economic Literature 29.3 : 1088 -1109. Kaufman, Bruce E. 2000 . Personnel/Human Resources Management: Its Roots as Applied Economics. In Toward a History of Applied Economics , edited by Roger Backhouse and Jeff Biddle. HOPE...