Roger Edward Backhouse, (born 19 January 1951) is a British economist, economic historian and academic. Since 1996, he has been Professor of the History and

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at the

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. Backhouse is an Associate Editor of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008) and is also Book Review Editor of the ''Economic Journal,'' an editor of the ''Journal of Economic Methodology'' and an Associate Editor of the ''Journal of the History of Economic Thought.'' Backhouse is a noted scholar in the history of economics and

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and has published in the economics of Keynes, disequilibrium macroeconomics, and the

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of recent (post-1945)

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. In 2014 he was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences. His approach to the History of Economic Thought has been reviewed by E. Roy Weintraub.Journal of the History of Economic Thought (1992), 14:271-277 Cambridge University Press On Roger E. Backhouse's “How Should We Approach the History of Economic Thought, Fact, Fiction or Moral Tale?” Comment: Thicker is Better E. Roy Weintraub Qualifications: B.Sc. in Economics and Economic History (University of Bristol); Ph.D. in Economics (University of Birmingham).

Selected publications

* (1985) ''A History of Modern Economic Analysis'', Oxford: Blackwell * (1994) ''Economists and the Economy'', 2nd ed., New Brunswick: Transaction * (1997) ''Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge'', Cheltenham: Edward Elgar * (1991) ''Applied UK Macroeconomics'' Blackwell Publishers * (2001) ''Macroeconomics and the Real World'', Volume 1: Econometric Techniques and Macroeconomics and Volume 2: ''Keynesian Economics, Unemployment, and Policy'', edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Andrea Salanti. Oxford University Press. * (2002) ''The Penguin History of Economics''.
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* (2010) ''The History of the Social Sciences since 1945''. Cambridge University Press, edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine. * (2010) ''The History of the Social Sciences since 1945'', edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine. Cambridge University Press, . * (2017) ''Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson'': Volume 1: ''Becoming Samuelson, 1915–1948''.
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Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-066411-4

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Backhouse, Roger 1951 births Living people 21st-century British economists Historians of economic thought Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of Birmingham Fellows of the British Academy Philosophers of economics