Education
University of Birmingham.
University of Birmingham.
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.
His approach to the History of Economic Thought has been reviewed by East. Roy Weintraub.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Economics and Economic History (University of Bristol). Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (University of Birmingham).
(2001) Macroeconomics and the Real World Volume 1: Econometric Techniques and Macroeconomics and Volume 2: Keynesian Economics, Unemployment, and Policy, Oxford University Press Edited by (2010) The History of the Social Sciences since 1945, Cambridge University Press, Edited by.