Advances in econometrics income distribution and scientific methodology : essays in honor of Camilo Dagum /

Toward a history of applied economics /

Table of Contents: “…: 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 /…”