Now Live

First Update

We are pleased to announce that the first update to the online Dictionary is now live. This update includes 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. If you have any suggestions of articles we should feature in future updates, please contact us we would love to hear from you.

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

These biographies originally featured in the 1987 edition of the Dictionary, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough room to include them in the new print edition. We are delighted to be able to include them in the Online Dictionary. More biographies will be added in future updates.

Upcoming

Second Update: December 2008

The second update to the online Dictionary will take place in December 2008. We are pleased to confirm that there will be 5 new articles along with 10 biographical profiles which originally appeared in the 1st edition.

New articles:

David Gale (1921-2008) by Joel Sobel
Legal Institutions and the Ancient Economy by Dennis P Kehoe
Economy of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
Dutch Disease by Thorvaldur Gylfason
Pretesting by Jan Magnus

New Biographies:

Ashton, Thomas Sutcliffe (1889-1968) by Phyllis Deane
Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus von (1868–1931) by Luca Meldolesi
Dmitriev, Vladimir Karpovich (1868–1913) by D.M. Nuti
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell (1879–1964) by Murray Milgate
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
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