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Backhouse, Roger; Bateman, Bradley William - 2009

Keynes’s thoughts on capitalism are analysed by focusing on what he wrote on the topic, using the Collected Writings, taken as a whole, together with some unpublished material to tackle three issues: what Keynes meant by capitalism; the fragility of capitalism; and the morality of capitalism....

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Hans Apel, Samuelson's economics and academic freedom, 1950 - 57

Backhouse, Roger - 2014

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Becoming applied : the transformation of economics after 1970

Backhouse, Roger; Cherrier, Béatrice - 2014

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A Short Note on the Place of Mainstream Economics in Samuelson's Family Tree of Economics

Backhouse, Roger - 2016

This note reviews the changes Samuelson made to the family tree of economics between the 4th and 11th editions of his … textbook Economics in relation to the book's changing coverage of the history of economic thought. Of particular interest are … the development from "neoclassical synthesis" to "new economics" to "Post-Keynes Mainstream", and the change from implying …

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Revisiting Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis

Backhouse, Roger - 2015

This paper re-examines the origins of Paul A. Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947), a book that helped define the way economic theory was undertaken for many years after its publication. Material taken from Samuelson's own papers and other archives is used to elaborate and correct...

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Becoming applied : the transformation of economics after 1970

Backhouse, Roger; Cherrier, Béatrice - 2015 - Version 1.12

This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new … understanding of the nature of applied work and hence of economics itself. …

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Hans Apel, Samuelson's Economics and Academic Freedom, 1950-57

Backhouse, Roger - 2015

This paper presents the story of the attempts made by Hans Apel, after a Professor at Bridgeport University, to defend academic freedom through strengthening the right of instructors to choose their own textbooks. The story began when his university was attacked and threatened with losing...

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