Professor Roger Backhouse

 

Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics

Department of Economics

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6655

Fax +44 (0)121 414 7377

Email r.e.backhouse@bham.ac.uk

Department of Economics
University of Birmingham
JG Smith Building
Birmingham
B15 2TT

About

Research Interests: History of economics and the social sciences; John Maynard Keynes; Paul A. Samuelson

Qualifications

B.Sc. in Economics and Economic History (University of Bristol0

Ph.D. in Economics (University of Birmingham)

Teaching

On research leave, 2011-2014.

Research

Working on an intellectual biography of Paul A. Samuelson, supported by a 3-year Leverhulme Trust Major Resarch Fellowship. Other research covers Keynes, the history of the social sciences since 1945, and the history of disequilibrium macroeconomics.

Other activities

Co-organiser of History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO).

Personal Homepage

Publications

"Robbins on Economic Generalizations and Reality in the Light of Modern Econometrics" (with Steven N. Durlauf, University of Wisconsin Madison), Economica 76, 2009, pp. 873-90.

 

"Defining economics: the long road to acceptance of theRobbins definition" (with Steven G. Medema, University of ColoradoDenver), Economica 76, 2009 pp. 805-20.

 

"The definition of economics" (with Steven G. Medema, University of Colorado Denver) Journal of Economic Perspectives 23(1), 2009, pp. 221-33.


No Wealth But Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 (edited jointly with Tamotsu Nishizawa), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

 

The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 (edited with Philippe Fontaine). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

 

The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.


Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes (with Bradley W. Bateman). Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2011.

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