Kevin Hoover

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Kevin D. Hoover
Born (1955-05-03) May 3, 1955 (age 65)
Nationality American
Institution Duke University
Field Macroeconomics
Alma mater Nuffield College, Oxford
Doctoral
advisor
Peter Oppenheimer
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Kevin Douglas Hoover (born May 3, 1955) is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Duke University. He has previously held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, University of Oxford (Balliol College, Nuffield College, and Lady Margaret Hall), and the University of California, Davis, where he served eight years as chair of the Economics Department. Hoover is most noted for his work in the philosophy and methodology of economics with issues surrounding the modelling of causation. He has been the president of the History of Economics Society and chaired the International Network for Economic Method. He is the editor of the journal History of Political Economy and was (1996-2005) the editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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