Toward a history of applied economics
By: edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle.
Contributors: Backhouse, Roger, 1951-; Biddle, Jeff.
Series: History of political economy -- annual suppl. to v. 32; History of political economy -- 2000.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Economics -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The concept of applied economics : a history of ambiguity and multiple meanings -- Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle; title: Economics for a client : the case of statistical quality control and sequential analysis -- Judy L. Klein; title: Atomic energy and the application of early models of technological change in economics, 1946-1954 -- Warren Young; title: Why do empirical results change? : forecasts as tests of rational expectations -- Robert S. Goldfarb and H.O. Stekler; title: The very idea of applying economics : the modern minimum-wage controversy and its antecedents -- Thomas C. Leonard; title: On the concept of applied economics : lessons from Cambridge economics and the history of growth theories -- Flavio Comim; title: Applied economics in a political economy tradition : the case of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1950s -- Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow, and Alan Hutton; title: Strategic games from theory to application -- Robert W. Dimand; title: Personnel/human resource management : its roots as applied economics -- Bruce E. Kaufman; title: A portrait of the economics of education, 1960-1997 -- Pedro Nuno Teixeira; title: "Related disciplines" : the professionalism of public choice anaylsis -- Steven G. Medema; title: Eclecticism, inconsistency, and innovation in the history of geographical economics-- Stephen J. Meardon.