The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 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.

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

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.)

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

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

External links

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
• Publisher’s Description