TY - BOOK AU - Backhouse,Roger Edward AU - Biddle,Jeff E. TI - Toward a history of applied economics T2 - History of political economy SN - 0822364859 U1 - 330.09 PY - 2000/// CY - Durham, N.C. PB - Duke University Press KW - HISTORIA ECONOMICA N1 - Suplemento anual de: History of Political Economy, v.32, 2000; Incluye bibliografía; he concept of applied economics : a history of ambiguity and multiple meanings / Economics for a client : the case of statistical quality control and sequential analysis / Atomic energy and the application of early models of technological change in economics, 1946-1954 / Why do empirical results change? : forecasts as tests of rational expectations / The very idea of applying economics : the modern minimum-wage controversy and its antecedents / On the concept of applied economics : lessons from Cambridge economics and the history of growth theories / Applied economics in a political economy tradition : the case of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1950s / Strategic games from theory to application / Personnel/human resource management : its roots as applied economics / A portrait of the economics of education, 1960-1997 / "Related disciplines" : the professionalism of public choice anaylsis / Eclecticism, inconsistency, and innovation in the history of geographical economics ER -