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]
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.
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]
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.
Notes
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
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