Toward a history of applied economics /
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| Format: | Book |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2000
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| Series: | History of political economy ;
no. 32 |
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Table of Contents:
- he concept of applied economics : a history of ambiguity and multiple meanings / Economics for a client : the case of statistical quality control and sequential analysis / Atomic energy and the application of early models of technological change in economics, 1946-1954 / Why do empirical results change? : forecasts as tests of rational expectations / The very idea of applying economics : the modern minimum-wage controversy and its antecedents / On the concept of applied economics : lessons from Cambridge economics and the history of growth theories / Applied economics in a political economy tradition : the case of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1950s / Strategic games from theory to application / Personnel/human resource management : its roots as applied economics / A portrait of the economics of education, 1960-1997 / "Related disciplines" : the professionalism of public choice anaylsis / Eclecticism, inconsistency, and innovation in the history of geographical economics /