Roger Backhouse (economist)
British economist, economic historian and academic
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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 economic methodology and has published in the economics of Keynes, disequilibrium macroeconomics, and the history of recent (post-1945) social science. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
His approach to the History of Economic Thought has been reviewed by E. Roy Weintraub.
Qualifications: B.Sc. in Economics and Economic History (University of Bristol); Ph.D. in Economics (University of Birmingham).