Roger Backhouse (economist)

Roger Edward Backhouse, is a British economist, economic historian and academic. Since 1996, he has been professor of the history and philosophy of economics at the University of Birmingham.
Backhouse is an associate editor of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 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 social science. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
His approach to the History of Economic Thought has been reviewed by E. Roy Weintraub.
Qualifications: B.Sc. in Economics and Economic History ; Ph.D. in Economics.

Selected publications

A History of Modern Economic Analysis, Oxford: BlackwellEconomists and the Economy, 2nd ed., New Brunswick: TransactionTruth and Progress in Economic Knowledge, Cheltenham: Edward ElgarApplied UK Macroeconomics Blackwell PublishersMacroeconomics 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. The Penguin History of Economics. & The History of the Social Sciences since 1945. Cambridge University Press, edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine.The History of the Social Sciences since 1945, edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine. Cambridge University Press,. Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915–1948. & . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-066411-4