Toward a history of applied economics

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• The Concept of Applied Economics : A History of Ambiguity and Multiple Meanings / ROGER E. BACKHOUSE ; JEFF BIDDLE = 1
• Part 1. Economic Techniques and Practical Problems
• Economics for a Client : The Case of Statistical Quality Control and Sequential Analysis / JUDY L. KLEIN = 27
• Atomic Energy and the Application of Early Models of Technological Change in Economics, 1946-1954 / WARREN YOUNG = 71
• Why Do Empirical Results Change? Forecasts as Tests of Rational Expectations / ROBERT S. GOLDFARB ; H. O. STEKLER = 95
• The Very Idea of Applying Economics : The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents / THOMAS C. LEONARD = 117
• Part 2. The Concept of Applied Economics
• On the Concept of Applied Economics : Lessons from Cambridge Economics and the History of Growth Theories / FLAVIO COMIM = 147
• Applied Economics in a Political Economy Tradition : The Case of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1950s / ALEXANDER DOW ; SHEILA DOW ; ALAN HUTTON = 177
• Strategic Games from Theory to Application / ROBERT W. DIMAND = 199
• Part 3. Applied Fields
• Personnel／Human Resource Management : Its Roots as Applied Economics / BRUCE E. KAUFMAN = 229
• A Portrait of the Economics of Education, 1960-1997 / PEDRO NUNO TEIXEIRA = 257
• "Related Disciplines" : The Professionalization of Public Choice Analysis / STEVEN G. MEDEMA = 289
• Eclecticism, Inconsistency, and Innovation in the History of Geographical Economics / STEPHEN J. MEARDON = 325
• Contributors = 361
• Index = 365