Roger E. Backhouse
Autor von The Penguin History of Economics
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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 mehr anzeigen Sciences since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) among numerous other titles. weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Roger E. Backhouse
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century (2002) 49 Exemplare
Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: Exploring Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956-2003 (2012) 19 Exemplare
Explorations in Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science (1998) 19 Exemplare
Toward a History of Applied Economics: 2000 Supplement (History of Political Economy Annual Supplement) (2000) 16 Exemplare
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson - Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 (2017) 15 Exemplare
No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 (2010) 5 Exemplare
Interpreting Macroeconomics: Explorations in the History of Macroeconomic Thought (1995) 5 Exemplare
The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century - New Edition (2024) 3 Exemplare
Economics and Methodology: Crossing Boundaries Volume 126 (International Economic Association Series) (1998) 3 Exemplare
Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state (2017) 2 Exemplare
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
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- 1951
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- Suffolk, England, UK
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- University of Bristol (B.Sc., Social Sciences)
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- economist
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The Penguin History of Economics von 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 weitere Rezension | Nov 16, 2008 |
notmyrealname | 1 weitere Rezension | 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.… (mehr)
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