The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition

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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, is an eight-volume reference work scheduled for publication 30 May 2008, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. It is projected to contain over 5.8 million words, spanning 7,680 pages with 1,872 articles written by 1,506 contributors including 25 Nobel Laureates in Economics. It will be published in print and for the first time in online format by Palgrave Macmillan.

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[edit] A dynamic online resource – www.dictionaryofeconomics.com

The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the eight-volume print edition and is a dynamic online resource, which:


- Allows remote access to members of subscribing institutions
- Offers search and browse facilities
- Contains hyperlinked cross-references within articles
- Features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, sources of further information and bibliographic citations
- Incorporates quarterly additions and updates
- Allows subscribers to create a ‘My Dictionary’ account, enabling them to save searches, create bookmarks and make notes on articles

[edit] Earlier Editions

When R. H. Inglis Palgrave’s original Dictionary of Political Economy launched between 1894–1899, it was a landmark in both publishing and economics. Offering a liberal and scholarly overview of the whole sphere of economic thought in its day, the dictionary was 'a landmark in economics' (Swidenbank, Linda. (1987). The Making of The New Palgrave. Macmillan Press: Basingstoke, 1.) Nearly thirty years later, Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy (1923–1926), edited by Henry Higgs, preserved the spirit of the original while embracing new concepts in the development of economics as a discipline.

In 1987, the four-volume The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, was published to international acclaim. Its scope had expanded and evolved greatly from the original but the tradition of drawing together eminent contributors from across the spectrum of methodological and ideological schools produced not only an unsurpassed work of reference on the grand scale, but also many individual classic essays of enduring importance. It has remained a standard work for economists in all spheres of the discipline and, as Palgrave described his original work, ‘an almost unique example of economic cooperation’ (Palgrave, Inglis R. H. (1894). Dictionary of Political Economy, Volume 1. Macmillan and Co: London, v-vi.)


[edit] Contributors

The General Editors are Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume

The Associate Editors are:

Roger Backhouse, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics, Birmingham, UK - Methodology and History of Economic Thought

Mark Bils, Professor of Economics, Rochester , USA - Macroeconomics, Applied Price Theory

Moshe Buchinsky, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA - Microeconomics/Microeconometrics, Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

Gregory Clark, Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis, USA - Economic History

Catherine Eckel, Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Design of Experiments and Behavioural Economics

Marcel Fafchamps, Professor of Development Economics , Oxford, UK - Oxford Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth

David Genesove, Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - Industrial Organization

James Hines, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan Economics Department, USA - Public Economics

Yannis Ioannides, Professor of Economics, Tufts University, USA - Urban & Rural Economics and Economic Geography

Barry Ickes, Professor of Economics, Penn State University, USA - Transition/Economic Systems

Shelly Lundberg, Castor Professor of Economics, University of Washington, USA - Applied Microeconomics and Family Economics

John Nachbar, Professor and Associate Chair, Washington University (St Louis), USA - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory

Lee O'Hanian, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA - Macroeconomics & Monetary Economics

Joon Park, Seoul National University and Rice University - Time Series/Econometric and Statistical Methods, Statistical Decision Theory

J Karl Scholz, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA - Public Economics Eckhard Janeba, Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany - International Economics

Christopher Taber, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, USA - Labor Economics, Education

Bruce Weinberg, Associate Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University, USA - Labor Economics, Education


Other High Profile Entry Contributors are:

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, M.I.T. and named one of the most relevant economists of the year by The New York Times

William Baumol, author of Good Capitalism, Bad Captalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion

Robert H. Frank, author of The Economic Naturalist

Bruce Greenwald, author of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffet and Beyond

Steven Levitt, author of Freakanomics

Greg Mankiw, author and blogger

Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty


Nobel Laureates contributors include:

George Akerlof, Maurice Allais, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Aumann, James M. Buchanan, Gerard Debreu, Milton Friedman, Clive Granger, John Harsanyi, James Heckman, Leonid Kantorovich, Wassily Leontief, Harry Markowitz, Robert C. Merton, Roger Myerson, Edmund Phelps, Edward Prescott, Paul Samuelson, Amartya Sen, Herbert Simon, Vernon Smith, George Stigler, Joseph E. Stiglitz, James Tobin, and William Vickrey.

[edit] References

Murray Milgate (1987). "Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy." In The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 791-92.

John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, ed. (1987). The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. London and New York: Macmillan and Stockton. ISBN 0-333-37235-2 and ISBN 0-935859-10-1

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