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

Philosophy of Economics Philosophy and economics studies topics such as public economics, behavioural economics, rationality, justice, history of economic thought, rational choice, the appraisal of economic outcomes, institutions and processes, the status of highly ide ...

at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. Backhouse is an Associate Editor of the

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'' (2018), 3rd ed., is a twenty-volume reference work on economics published by Palgrave Macmillan. It contains around 3,000 entries, including many classic essays from the original Inglis Palgrave Diction ...

(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 History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and

economic methodology Economic methodology is the study of methods, especially the scientific method, in relation to economics, including principles underlying economic reasoning. In contemporary English, 'methodology' may reference theoretical or systematic aspe ...

and has published in the economics of Keynes,

disequilibrium macroeconomics Disequilibrium macroeconomics is a tradition of research centered on the role of disequilibrium in economics. This approach is also known as non-Walrasian theory, equilibrium with rationing, the non-market clearing approach, and non-tâtonnement ...

, and the

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

of recent (post-1945)

social science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

. In 2014 he was elected a

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...

, 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 Eliot Roy Weintraub (; born March 22, 1943) is an American mathematician, economist, and, since 1976, professor of economics at Duke University.• John Lodewijks, 2002. "Roy Weintraub's Contribution to the History of Economics," in S. G. Medema ...

.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 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