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Third Update – March 2009

We are pleased to announce that the third update to the online Dictionary is now live. This is comprised of eight brand new, articles specially commissioned for the online edition. Remember, that if you have any suggestions for articles we should feature in future updates please contact us as we would be delighted to hear from you.

New articles:

The Barings Crisis by Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College, USA
Heavy Tailed Densities by Rustam Ibragimov, Harvard University, USA
Islamic Finance by Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice University, USA
Minimax by Jörg Stoye, New York University, USA
Minimax Regret by Jörg Stoye, New York University, USA
Money Supply in the American Colonies by Farley Grubb, University of Delaware, USA
Patent Races by Richard Jensen, University of Notre Dame, USA
Tournaments by Tor Eriksson, Aarhus School of Business and Center for Corporate Performance, Denmark

Second Update – December 2008

The articles from our second update, which went live in December 2008 can be accessed from the links below. This update included five new, specially commissioned articles, along with 10 biographies of key figures from the world of economics that originally featured in the first edition of the Dictionary

New articles:

Dutch Disease by Thorvaldur Gylfason, University of Iceland, Iceland
Economy of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge, UK
Gale, David (1921-2008) by Joel Sobel, University of California San Diego, USA
Legal Institutions and the Ancient Economy by Dennis P Kehoe, Tulane University, USA
Pretesting by Jan Magnus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

New biographies:

Anderson, James (1739-1808) by J.M.A Gee
Amoroso, Luigi (1886-1965) by Giancarlo Gandolfo
Ashton, Thomas Sutcliffe (1889-1968) by Phyllis Deane
Burns, Arthur Robert (1895-1981) by Henry W. Spiegel
Collet, Clara Elizabeth (1860-1948) by R.D. Colinson Black
Macfie, Alec Lawrence (1898-1980) by Andrew Skinner
Pennington, James (1777-1862) by Murray Milgate
Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869) by Murray Milgate and Alistair Levy
Twiss, Travers (1809-1897) by Murray Milgate
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell (1879-1964) by Murray Milgate

First Update – September 2008

The articles from our first update to the online Dictionary can be accessed from the links below. This update included 5 new, specially commissioned articles, along with 19 biographies of key figures from the world of economics that originally featured in the 1st edition of the Dictionary.

New articles:

Patent Pools by Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Thin Markets by Marzena Rostek and Marek Weretka
Hutchison, Terrence Wilmot (1912-2007) by Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham, UK
Demography of the Ancient World by Walter Scheidel, USA
Stigma by Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; and Lawrence Blume, Cornell University, USA

New biographies:

Abbott, Edith by P.Kerr
Akerman, Joan Gustavo by K.Velupillai
Akerman, Johan Henrik by K.Velupillai
Babbage, Charles by Maxine Berg
Buchanan, David by Andrew Skinner
Carey, Henry Charles by Henry W. Spiegel
Colquhoun, Patrick by D.P. O’Brien
Cunynghame, Henry Harding by J.K. Whitaker
Hearn, William by M.White
Huskisson, William by Roy Green
Millar, John by Nicholas Phillipson
Mummery, Albert by Michael Bleaney
Newmarch, William by D.P. O’Brien
Oncken, August by Jurg Niehans
Postlethwayt, Malachy by William Darity
Rist, Charles by Roger Dehem
Svennilson, Ingmar by Bjorn Hansson
Sohmen, Egon by Kotaro Suzumura
Ure, Andrew by William Lazonick