The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008), 2nd Edition, is an eight-volume reference work, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. It contains 5.8 million words and spans 7,680 pages with 1,872 articles. Included are 1057 new articles and, from earlier, 80 "classic" essays, 157 revised articles, and 550 edited articles. It is the product of 1,506 contributors, including 25 Nobel Laureates in Economics. It is also available in a searchable, hyperlinked online version with added content from quarterly updates. The publisher is Palgrave Macmillan. The first edition, The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987), was published in four volumes.^[1]

Contents 1 Editors and contributors 2 The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics 2.1 Subject Index 2.2 Contents by volume number 3 Earlier editions 4 Notes 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Editors and 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

Mark Bils, Professor of Economics, Rochester, USA

Moshe Buchinsky, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Gregory Clark, Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis, USA

Catherine Eckel, Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Marcel Fafchamps, Professor of Development Economics, Oxford, UK

David Genesove, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

James Hines, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, USA

Barry Ickes, Professor of Economics, Penn State University, USA

Yannis Ioannides, Professor of Economics, Tufts University, USA

Eckhard Janeba, Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany

Shelly Lundberg, Castor Professor of Economics, University of Washington, USA

John Nachbar, Professor of Economics, Washington University (St Louis), USA

Lee O'Hanian, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Joon Park, Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University, USA

John Karl Scholz, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Christopher Taber, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Bruce Weinberg, Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University, USA

Other High Profile Entry Contributors are:

Daron Acemoglu, John Bates Clark Award; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; author of the forthcoming book Introduction to Modern Economics Growth

Philippe Aghion, 2001 Yrjo Jahnsson Award; co-editor of Handbook of Economic Growth

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

Alan Blinder, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, US Federal Reserve; member of Council of Economic Advisors (Clinton Administration); member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; author of Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Tough Minded Economics for a Just Society

Samuel Bowles, served as an economic advisor to the World Bank and the International Labor Organization; co-author of Schooling in Capitalist America and Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution

Tyler Cowen, New York Times columnist; author of Discover Your Inner Economist

Peter Diamond, Nemmers Prize; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences; author of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach

Avinash Dixit, president of the American Economic Association; member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Corresponding (Foreign) Fellow of the British Academy; former president of the Econometric Society

William Easterly, author of The Elusive Quest for Growth : Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; formerly President of Citigroup International

Robert H. Frank, author of The Economic Naturalist

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, chief economic advisor to the McCain campaign

Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics

Paul Klemperer, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2005; Fellow of the British Academy, elected 1999

Richard Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty

Thomas Sargent, former president of the American Economic Association; former president of the Econometric Society; member of the American Academy and National Academy

Robert Shiller, author of The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It

Nobel Laureate contributors include:

George Akerlof, Maurice Allais, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Aumann, James 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.

A complete list of articles and associated authors is here.

[edit] The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987) is the title of the first New Palgrave edition. It is a four-volume reference edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman. It has 4,000 pages of entries, including 1,300 subject entries (with 4,000 cross-references), and 655 biographies. There were 927 contributors, including 13 Nobel Laureates in Economics at the time of first publication. It includes about 50 articles from Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy (1925–1927).

[edit] Subject Index

Each entry falls within exactly one of the following Subject Index classifications and subclassifications:

I. History of Thought and Doctrine: classical economics, Marxian economics, doctrines, schools of thought

II. Cognate Areas: philosophy, methodology, rationality & behaviour, anthropology, history

III. Natural and Human Resources: agriculture & land, environment, labour & employment, population, justice, inequality, & discrimination

IV. Social and Political Organization: public finance, welfare economics, planned economies, social choice & public choice, law & economics

V. Economic Organization: economic organization, transaction cost, industrial organization, monopoly & oligopoly, conflict & war, game theory, risk & uncertainty

VI. Techniques: mathematical economics, mathematical methods, statistical methods, private accounting & social accounting, econometrics, time series

VII. Money and Macroeconomics: finance, monetary theory & institutions, international monetary economics, macroeconomic theory & policy

VIII. Dynamics, Growth, and Development: investment, cycles, economic growth, technical change, development, international trade, spatial economics

IX. Value and Capital: competition, utility, consumers' demand, & index numbers, production, cost, & supply, general equilibrium, capital theory, distribution

X. Miscellaneous: Amer Econ Assoc, Palgrave's Dictionary, econ libraries, Royal Econ Society

XI. Biographies by Country: Britain & Ireland, Germany, Austria, Low Countries, Italy & S. Europe, Scandinavia, E. Europe, N. America, Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Japan, S. Africa, S. America & Caribbean.

[edit] Contents by volume number

Contents include;

List of Entries A-Z, including cross-references, at the beginning of each volume.

Volume 1: A-D.

Volume 2: E-J.

Volume 3: K-P.

Volume 4: Q-Z.

Appendix I: Entries by author

Appendix II: Biographies of persons in Palgrave's Dictionary (1925) but not The New Palgrave

Appendix III: Entries by author in Palgrave's Dictionary (1925-27)

Appendix IV: Subject Index

Index: 38 pp.

[edit] Earlier editions

R. H. Inglis Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–1899), 3 v., was the forerunner of The New Palgrave. It was considered a landmark in both publishing and economics. It offered a liberal and scholarly overview of economic thought in its day. Nearly thirty years later, Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy (1923–1926), edited by Henry Higgs, appeared with Palgrave's name added to the title but few changes in structure or contents.^[2]

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

[edit] References

• Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, ed. (2008). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 9780333786765
• 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

[edit] External links

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008)

Publisher’s description, Palgrave Macmillan (U.K.)

Publisher’s description, Palgrave Macmillan (U.S.)

• The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987). Publisher’s description.