Works by Roger Backhouse
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- Explorations in economic methodology: from Lakatos to empirical philosophy of science.Roger Backhouse (ed.) -1998 - London: Routledge.Is methodology fruitless? Intense controversy has resulted from attempts to understand economics through philosophy of science. This collection clarifies and responds to the issues raised, arguing that methodology is an essential activity.
- The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology?Roger E. Backhouse -2010 - Cambridge University Press.Does economics hold the key to everything or does the recent financial crisis show that it has failed? This book provides an assessment of modern economics that cuts through the confusion and controversy on this question. Case studies of the creation of new markets, the Russian transition to capitalism, globalization, and money and finance establish that economics has been very successful where problems have been well defined and where the world can be changed to fit the theory, but that it (...) has been less successful in tackling bigger problems. The book then offers a historical perspective on how economists have, since the Second World War, tried to make their subject scientific. It explores the evolving relationship between science and ideology and investigates the place of heterodoxy and dissent within the discipline. (shrink)
- 1 A cunning purchase: the life and work of Maynard Keynes.Roger E. Backhouse &Bradley W. Bateman -2006 - In Roger E. Backhouse & Bradley W. Bateman,The Cambridge Companion to Keynes. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--18.Export citation
Bookmark - Lakatosian Perspectives on General Equilibrium Analysis.Roger E. Backhouse -1993 -Economics and Philosophy 9 (2):271-282.
- A Road Not Taken: Economists, Historians of Science, and the Making of the Bowman Report.Roger E. Backhouse &Harro Maas -2017 -Isis 108 (1):82-106.No categories
- 9 The methodology of scientific research programmes.Roger E. Backhouse -2004 - In John Bryan Davis & Alain Marciano,The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar. pp. 181.
- An ‘Inexact’ Philosophy of Economics?Roger E. Backhouse -1997 -Economics and Philosophy 13 (1):25-37.The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics represents the most ambitious attempt to provide a systematic account of economic methodology since the first edition of Blaug's The Methodology of Economics. As such, it has been the subject of extensive critical commentary. For all the attention it has received, however, some important aspects of the book's thesis have not been developed properly. Two important ones are what might be called, following the terminology used in the experimental economics literature, the ‘framing effect’ (...) of Hausman's definition of economics, and the significance of Hausman's claim that economists are committed to developing economics as a ‘separate’ science. To understand these points it is important to make explicit the position from which Hausman approaches the philosophy of science. (shrink)
- Economic models and reality: The role of informal scientific methods.Roger E. Backhouse -2002 - In Uskali Mäki,Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 202--213.
- Macroeconomics and the Real World: Volume 1: Keynesian Economics, Econometric Techniques and Macroeconomics.Roger E. Backhouse &Andrea Salanti (eds.) -2000 - Oxford University Press UK.In these two volumes, a group of distinguished economists debate the way in which evidence, in particular econometric evidence, can and should be used to relate macroeconomic theories to the real world. Topics covered include the business cycle, monetary policy, economic growth, the impact of new econometric techniques, the IS-LM model, the labour market, new Keynesian macroeconomics, and the use of macroeconomics in official documents.
- 18 Methodological issues in Keynesian macroeconomics.Roger E. Backhouse &Bradley W. Bateman -2011 - In J. B. Davis & D. W. Hands,Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology. Edward Elgar Publishers. pp. 437.
- New Perspectives in Economic Methodology.Roger Backhouse (ed.) -1994 - Routledge.
- 5 Post-Keynesian: A rare example of a post-concept in economics.Roger E. Backhouse -2021 - In Herman Paul & Adriaan van Veldhuizen,Post-everything: An intellectual history of post-concepts. Manchester University Press. pp. 99-115.No categories
- Political Economy: History with the Politics Left Out?Roger Backhouse -2012 -Historical Materialism 20 (3):24-38.This paper argues that Milonakis and Fine, in their bookFrom Political Economy to Economics, offer an account of history that systematically omits discussion of how economics has been shaped by the political and social context in which it developed. This contrasts with work by intellectual historians who have argued that such factors were crucial to understanding the history of economic ideas. It is ironic given that Milonakis and Fine are criticising economists for excluding the political and the social from economics.
- Symposium: Data Mining.Roger E. Backhouse -2000 -Journal of Economic Methodology 7 (2):171-277.
- The Cambridge Companion to Keynes.Roger E. Backhouse &Bradley W. Bateman (eds.) -2006 - Cambridge University Press.John Maynard Keynes was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the theory of probability and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. In this volume contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer new interpretations of Keynes's thought, explain the links between Keynes's philosophy and his economics, and place his work and Keynesianism - the economic theory, the principles of economic policy, and the (...) political philosophy - in their historical context. Chapter topics include Keynes's philosophical engagement with G. E. Moore and Franz Brentano, his correspondence, the role of his General Theory in the creation of modern macroeconomics, and the many meanings of Keynesianism. New readers will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Keynes currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Keynes. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics.Roger E. Backhouse,Antoinette Baujard &Tamotsu Nishizawa (eds.) -2021 - Cambridge University Press.No categories
- International Network for Economic Method.Bruce Caldwell,Hon Secretaryflreasurer &Roger Backhouse -1999 -Journal of Economic Methodology 6 (1):151-153.Export citation Bookmark
- International Network for Economic Method.Sheila Dow,Roger Backhouse,John Davis,Daniel Hausman,Tony Lawson,Mary Morgan &Esther-Mirjam Sent -2003 -Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (1):99-101.Export citation Bookmark
- Is There Progress in Economics? Knowledge, Truth and the History of Economic Thought. Stephan Boehm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz D. Kurz, Richard Sturn (eds).Boehm Stephan,Christian Gehrke,Heinz D. Kurz,Richard Sturn,Donald Winch,Mark Blaug,Klaus Hamberger,Jack Birner,Sergio Cremaschi,Roger E. Backhouse,Uskali Maki,Luigi Pasinetti,Erich W. Streissler,Philippe Mongin,Augusto Graziani,Hans-Michael Trautwein,Stephen J. Meardon,Andrea Maneschi,Sergio Parrinello,Manuel Fernandez-Lopez,Richard van den Berg,Sandye Gloria-Palermo,Hansjorg Klausinger,Maurice Lageux,Fabio Ravagnani,Neri Salvadori &Pierangelo Garegnani -2002 - Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspective. The idea of progress is particularly significant as the authors regard it as an essentially contested concept which can be defined in many ways – theoretically or empirically; locally or (...) globally; or as encouraging or impeding the existence of other research traditions. The authors discuss the idea that for progress to make any sense there must be an accumulation of knowledge built up over time rather than the replacement of ideas by each successive generation. Accordingly, they are not concerned with estimating the price of progress, reminiscing in the past, or assessing what has been lost. Instead they apply the complex mechanisms and machinery of the discipline to sub-fields such as normative economics, monetary economics, trade and location theory, Austrian economics and classical economics to critically assess whether progress has been made in these areas of research. -/- Bringing together authoritative and wide-ranging contributions by leading scholars, this book will challenge and engage those interested in philosophy, economic methodology and the history of economic thought. It will also appeal to economists in general who are interested in the advancement of their profession. (shrink)
- Review: An Empirical Philosophy of Economic Theory. [REVIEW]Roger E. Backhouse -1995 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (1):111 - 121.
- An engine, not a camera: How financial models shape markets , Donald MacKenzie. Mit press, 2006, X + 377 pages. [REVIEW]Roger Backhouse -2009 -Economics and Philosophy 25 (1):99-106.
- Christopher K. Ryan. Harry Gunnison Brown: An Orthodox Economist and His Contributions. Foreword by, Alfred E. Kahn. xiv + 270 pp., illus., bibl., index. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. $34.95. [REVIEW]Roger Backhouse -2004 -Isis 95 (3):517-518.
- (1 other version)Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. [REVIEW]Roger Backhouse -2003 -Isis 94:769-771.
- Paul Erickson. The World the Game Theorists Made. 390 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. $35. [REVIEW]Roger E. Backhouse -2016 -Isis 107 (4):893-894.No categories
- Review of Jesper Jespersen’s Macroeconomic methodology: a post Keynesian perspective, and of Luigi Pasinetti’s Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: a revolution to be accomplished. [REVIEW]Roger Backhouse -2010 -Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3 (2):119-127.Jesper Jespersen’s Macroeconomic methodology: a post Keynesian perspective. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2009, 272 pp. Luigi Pasinetti’s Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: a revolution to be accomplished. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009 [2007], 412 pp.
- Reflection without rules: Economic methodology and contemporary science theory, by Wade hands. Cambridge university press 2001, XI + 480 pages. [REVIEW]Roger E. Backhouse -2004 -Economics and Philosophy 20 (1):234-240.
- Economics and the Antagonism of Time: Time, Uncertainty and Choice in Economic Theory, Douglas Vickers. University of Michigan Press, 1994, x + 272 pages. [REVIEW]Roger E. Backhouse -1996 -Economics and Philosophy 12 (1):119.
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