The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics

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The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987) is a 4-volume reference edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman. It has 4,000 pages of entries, including 1,300 subject entries (with 4000 cross-references), and over 655 biographies listed alphabetically.^[1]

1 Subject Index
2 Contributors and earlier Palgrave's
3 Contents by volume number
4 Notes
5 References
6 See also
7 External links

[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: economic 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] Contributors and earlier Palgrave's

Contributors include 927 economists writing in their fields of expertise,^[2] including 27 Nobel Laureates before or since publication from the first year of the prize in 1969 through 2007.

The most extensive previous such reference is Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy. The first complete edition appeared in 1908 (three volumes), 17 years after initiation. A later edition was completed in 1925. The New Palgrave includes about 50 entries from this earlier work.^[3]

[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] Notes

[edit] References

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
publisher's description (with comments of Kenneth J. Arrow, Alan Blinder, & Martin L. Weitzman).
Murray Milgate (1987). "Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 791-92.