Roger Backhouse

Biographic Data

ID5731076
NAMERoger Backhouse
GIVEN NAMESRoger
FAMILY NAMEBackhouse
SIGNATUREBACKHOUSE R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Real Economy: History and Theory by Jonathan Levy

    Roger BackhouseARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2026

  • Robert Skidelsky: Money and Government: A Challenge to Mainstream Economics

    Open AccessRoger E Backhouse, Roger BackhouseARTICLESociety2022

  • Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

    Open AccessRoger E Backhouse, Roger BackhouseARTICLESociety2022

  • The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes

    Roger Backhouse, RW Dimand et al.BOOKThe Elgar Companion to John…2019

    There are three areas in which Kahn (1905–1989) made contributions which secured him a prominent place in the history of economics: imperfect competition, the theory of employment, and monetary and international economics.

  • The Initiative for a New Social-Market Economy and the Transformation of the German Welfare Regime after Unification: Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State

    Daniel Kinderman, Bradley W Bateman et al.BOOKLiberalism and the welfare state2017

    This chapter focuses on how business interests and neoliberal ideas have come together in Germany during the past two decades. It is based on a detailed analysis of the INSM, a large-scale campaign founded and funded by the metal industry employers’ association Gesamtmetall in 2000 to shape public opinion. Since its origination, the INSM has launched a systematic attack on the German welfare state. As part of a business-led public relations campa…

  • Political Economy: History with the Politics Left Out

    Roger E Backhouse, Roger BackhouseARTICLEHistorical Materialism2012References: 8

    This paper argues that Milonakis and Fine, in their book From Political Economy to Economics , offer an account of history that systematically omits discussion of how economics has been shaped by the political and social context in which it developed. This contrasts with work by intellectual historians who have argued that such factors were crucial to understanding the history of economic ideas. It is ironic given that Milonakis and Fine are crit…

  • Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: In Honor of Edmund S. Phelps

    Open AccessRoger Backhouse, Roger K BackhouseARTICLEEconomica2005

  • Economics and Language

    Warren J Samuels, Willie Henderson et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1993Cited by: 13

    Journal Article Economics and Language Get access Economics and Language. Edited by Henderson (Willie), DUDLEY- Evans (Tony) AND Backhouse (Roger). (London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. x + 251. £40.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 08159 9, 0 415 09209 4.) Warren J. Samuels Warren J. Samuels Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 421,…

  • Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas 1600 to the Present Day

    Alec Gee, Roger E Backhouse et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1989

    Journal Article Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas 1600 to the Present Day Get access Economists and the 'Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas 1600 to the Present Day. By ROGER BACKHOUSE. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. x + 224. £27.50 hardback. ISBN 0 631 15558 9.) Alec Gee Alec Gee Dundee University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 39…

  • Classical Economics

    Roger E Backhouse, Roger Backhouse et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1988

    Journal Article Classical Economics Get access Classical Economics. By SAMUEL HOLLANDER. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. xiv + 485. £35.00 hardback.) Roger Backhouse Roger Backhouse University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 391, 1 June 1988, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233414 Published: 01 June 1988

  • A History of Modern Economic Analysis

    Mark Blaug, Roger E Backhouse et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1986Cited by: 18

    Journal Article A History of Modern Economic Analysis Get access A History of Modern Economic Analysis. By ROGER BACKHOUSE. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. xii + 520. £29.50 hardback.) Mark Blaug Mark Blaug University of London and University of Buckingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 382, 1 June 1986, Pages 571–573, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233152 Published: 0…

  • Macroeconomics and the British Economy

    Bernard Corry, Roger E Backhouse et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1984Cited by: 1

    Macroeconomics and the British Economy Get access Macroeconomics and the British Economy. By ROGER BACKHOUSE. (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983. Pp. xiv + 305. £25.00 hardback, £9.95 paperback.)Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy in the UK. By DAVID GREENAWAY and G. K. SHAW. (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983. Pp. xiii + 462. £9.95.) Bernard Corry Bernard Corry Queen Mary College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…