Related Research Articles
Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a contemporary one, known as "New economic sociology".
The Economic Journal (EJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society (RES) by Oxford University Press. First published in 1891, the EJ is one of the founding journals of economics and has a worldwide reputation for excellence in its field. The EJ publishes papers from all areas of economics and has eight issues a year.
The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused on the analysis of global labor markets and headquartered in Bonn, Germany.
Scottish Journal of Political Economy is a scholarly political economy journal published by the Scottish Economic Society.
Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA. She formerly chaired the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. From 2004 to 2014, she was the Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. From 2015, Cairncross has been Chair of the Court of Heriot-Watt University.
Applied economics is the application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings. As one of the two sets of fields of economics, it is typically characterized by the application of the core, i.e. economic theory and econometrics to address practical issues in a range of fields including demographic economics, labour economics, business economics, industrial organization, agricultural economics, development economics, education economics, engineering economics, financial economics, health economics, monetary economics, public economics, and economic history. From the perspective of economic development, the purpose of applied economics is to enhance the quality of business practices and national policy making.
Sir Alexander Kirkland "Alec" Cairncross was a British economist. He was the brother of the spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross and public health engineer and epidemiologist Sandy Cairncross.
De-industrialization is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially of heavy industry or manufacturing industry.
Joseph Shield Nicholson, FBA, FRSE was an English economist.
Alexander Nove, FRSE, FBA was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D. Thatcher, "[T]he consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of 'Soviet' studies in its widest sense and beyond."
John Halstead Hardman Moore CBE FBA FRSE is an economic theorist. He was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics in 2000. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.
Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Roberthall was an Australian-born economist who served as chief economic advisor to the British government from 1947 to 1961.
Basil John Moore was a Canadian post-Keynesian economist, best known for developing and promoting endogenous money theory, particularly the proposition that the money supply curve is horizontal, rather than upward sloping, a proposition known as horizontalism. He was the most vocal proponent of this theory, and is considered a central figure in post Keynesian economics
Joan Martinez Alier is a Catalan economist, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History and researcher at ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Events from the year 1859 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1857 in Scotland.
Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur, is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He worked for the World Bank for almost two decades and was the director of the World Development Report.
Ruth Towse FRSA is a British economist and Professor of Economics of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University and Professor Emerita at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. A leading authority in cultural economics with a particular emphasis on the economics of media and copyright, she has taught in UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Thailand universities. She was married to Mark Blaug.
Tony Aspromourgos is an Australian historian of economic thought, professor at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). He has published several books and many articles in economic journals on different subjects concerning the history of economic thought, especially on William Petty, Richard Cantillon and Adam Smith.
Barbara Sianesi is an Italian economist currently a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. She obtained her PhD from University College London and a BA in economics from Bocconi University.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Campbell, R. H. (1 September 1997). "The Scottish Society of Economists: The Scottish Economic Society-1897-1997". Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 44 (4): 359–367. doi:10.1111/1467-9485.00064.
- 1 2 About the Scottish Economic Society
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hutton, Alan (2006). "A Scottish tradition of applied economics in the twentieth century". In Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow (ed.). The history of Scottish economic thought . London: Routledge. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0415344371.
- 1 2 3 Cairncross, Alexander K. (March 1954). "The Scottish Economic Society". Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 1 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9485.1954.tb00692.x.
