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December 2011 Release
Our December release contains seven new articles commissioned for the Online edition. Remember, that if you have any suggestions for articles you think we should feature in future updates please contact us as we would be delighted to hear from you.
European Union single market: design and development Jacques Pelkmans, CEPS Brussels and College of Europe Bruges, Belgium
European Union single market: economic impact Jacques Pelkmans, CEPS Brussels and College of Europe Bruges, Belgium
Health behaviours, economics of Donald S Kenkel, Cornell University, USA
IQ and national productivity Garett Jones, George Mason University, USA
Latin American economic development Mauricio Cárdenas, Minister of Mines and Energy, Government of Columbia, Columbia and Steven M Helfand, University of California, Riverside USA
Observational learning Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and Peter Norman Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Diamond Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics, UK
September 2011 Release
European Monetary Union by Paul De Grauwe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
European Union budget by Mojmir Mrak, University of Ljubijana, Slovenia
European Union (EU) trade policy by Stephen Woolcock, London School of Economics, UK
Dale Mortensen by Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Christopher Pissarides by Richard Jackman, London School of Economics, UK
Two-part tariffs by Nikolaos Vettas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
June 2011 Release
European monetary integration by David B Mayes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by Alan Swinbank, University of Reading, UK
Fall of AIG by William Sjostrom, The University of Arizona, USA
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the crisis in US mortgage finance by Lawrence J White, New York University, USA
The Minsky crisis by Randall Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas, USA
Open source software (a brief survey of the economics of) by Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal, both at Tel Aviv University, Israel
Subprime mortgage crisis by Christopher L Foote and Paul Willen, both at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA
April 2011 Release
Credit Crunch Chronology
Economic impact of the Olympic Games by Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College, USA
Edgeworth price cycles by Michael D Noel, University of California, San Diego, USA
European Central Bank and monetary policy in the Euro area by Vitor Gaspar, Bank of Portugal, Portugal and Otmar Issing, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
European cohesion policy by Willem Molle, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Euro Zone crisis 2010 by Daniel Gros and Cinzia Alcidi both at Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium
William Paley by A. M. C Waterman, University of Manitoba, Canada
The Run on Northern Rock by Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics, UK
December 2010 Update
Classroom peer effects by Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Econometric issues in the presence of multiple equilibria by Francesca Molinari, Cornell University, USA
Emily Green Balch by Robert Dimand, Brock University, Canada
Elinor Ostrom by Peter Boettke and Paul Dragos Aligica, both of George Mason University, USA
Gasoline markets by Jean-Francois Houd, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Oliver E Williamson by Scott Masten, University of Michigan, USA
Redlining by Ethan Cohen-Cole, University of Maryland, USA
Rational inattention by Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University, USA
October 2010 Update
Cost-benefit analysis: philosophical issues by Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Credit rating agencies by Joel Shapiro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Foreclosure, economics of by Kristopher Gerardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, USA
Housing and the business cycle by Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Misclassification in binary variables by Christopher Bollinger, University of Kentucky, USA
No trade theorems by Ricardo Serrano-Padial, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Social networks and health outcomes by Jason M Fletcher, Yale University, USA
The classic 1987 edition is now available online and free to view for all subscribers - July 2010
The first edition of The New Palgrave, published in 1987, contained almost 2,000 articles and was the reference work of choice for over 20 years. It is now available online and all subscribers to the Dictionary can enjoy free access to these articles from the Archive, offering the opportunity to see how the field has changed.
Selected articles from the Archive (1987 edition):
- Hunting and Gathering Economies; Vernon L Smith
- Quantity Theory of Money; Milton Friedman
- Financial Markets; Nils H Hakansson
- Principal and Agent (ii); Joseph E Stiglitz
- Continuity in Economic History; Donald N McCloskey
- Housework; Clair Brown and Amelia Preece
- Command Economy; Gregory Grossman
July 2010 Update
Bidding rings by John Asker, New York University, USA
Covered interest parity by Oya Pinar Ardic and C Emre Alper both at Bogaziçi University, Turkey
Housing wealth by Pedro Silos, Federal Research Bank of Atlanta, USA
Illicit drugs, retail market by Manolis Galenianos, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Multiple testing by Jospeh P Romano, Stanford University, USA, Azeem M Shaikh, University of Chicago, USA and Michael Wolf, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Multi-valued treatment effects by Matias Cattaneo, University of Michigan, USA
Random Fields by Nazgul Jenish, New York University, USA
April 2010 Update
Approval voting by Enriqueta Aragones, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIS. Spain and Micael Castanheira, University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Corruption and economic growth by Niloy Bose, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
The economic consequences of weather by Jordan Rappaport, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, USA
Exchange market pressure by Henk Jager and Franc Klaassen both at Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Executive compensation by Mike Bognano, Temple University, USA
General equilibrium with incomplete markets by Martine Quinzii, University of California at Davis and Michael Magill, University of Southern California, USA
Marital institutions by Scott Drewianka, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Social networks: econometrics by Yann Bramoulle and Bernard Fortin both at Université Laval, Canada
The Solow residual by Paul Johnson, Vassar College, USA
Trade and environmental regulations by Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky, USA
Improving the display of mathematical equations - December 2009
The Dictionary uses the leading technology to render equations online. You can test your browser settings to see if you have the necessary requirements to view equations at their best. Following user feedback, we recently worked to further improve the display.
December 2009 Update
Austrian economics: recent work by Mario J Rizzo, New York University, USA
Chandler, Alfred by Walter Friedman, Harvard University, USA
International coordination of regulation by David Lazer, Harvard University, USA
Matching models: empirics by Jeremy Fox, University of Chicago, USA
Preindustrial inequality by Branko Milanovic, World Bank, USA
Reparations by Kim Oosterlink, Universite Libre de Bruxelle, Belgium
Wal-mart, Economics of, by Emek Basker, University of Missouri, USA
New Palgrave contributor wins Nobel Prize - October 2009
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 has been awarded to Dictionary contributor and first female winner, Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", and Oliver E. Williamson, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm".
September 2009 Update
Case based decision theory by Ani Guerdjikova, Cornell University, USAForeign exchange reserve management by Claudio Borio, Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland
Indian economic development by Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University, USA
National leadership and economic growth by Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University, USA
Social networks: Austrian perspectives by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College, USA
White, Harry Dexter by James M Boughton, International Monetary Fund, USA
June 2009 Update
The June 2009 update comprised of eight brand new articles specially commissioned for the online edition. At the same time we added a number of functionality and design enhancements to the websiteNew articles:
Central Bank Communication by Michael Ehrmann and Marcel Fratzscher, European Central Bank, GermanyEconomics in Belgium by Guido Erreygers, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Economics of Franchises by Roger Blair and Jessica Haynes, University of Florida, USA
Flypaper Effect by Robert P Inman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Marshall Plan by Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, McGill University, Canada
Statistical Discrimination by Andrea Moro, Vanderbilt University, USA
Taste Based Discrimination by Jonathan Guryan and Kerwin Charles, The University of Chicago, USA
Voluntary Contribution Model of Public Goods by Richard Cornes, Australian National University, Australia
Announcing the New Functionality and Design Enhancements – 1st May 2009
We are incredibly grateful to all our users for the positive feedback we've received since we launched the Online edition a little over a year ago. It has also been great to receive suggestions on ways we can make the website even better, so we've taken many of these onboard and are pleased to launch our new design and new features. Those of our users that use LaTex will be pleased to hear that we’ve now added a new citation tool that is compatible with it. For those that are fed up of having to go to multiple websites, rather than just one, we’ve now added a dynamic feed from the Palgrave Econolog (the aggregator of economics blogs) to the homepage, so you can keep up to date with the blogosphere whilst using the Dictionary. And for those that use social bookmark links, we’ve added links to Connotea and Del.icio.us on every article. Just fancy a browse: why not check out the homepage where you'll find links to the top 5 and 10 most accessed article. In addition to these enhancements, we’ve added many more subtle changes that we hope further enhance the user experience. And don't forget that new content is being added to the website each quarter. We’d love to hear what you think of the new features, or if you have any suggestions for future enhancements: click here to contact us.
New Palgrave Economics Writing Prize Winner 2008–9
We are very proud and happy to announce the winner of our competition launched in association with the Financial Times and the London School of Economics– ‘Why Economics Matters.’ Satnam Lehal, 31, a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities who works in financial services, won the £1000 prize this year. For more information and updates about future competitions, please keep coming back to this site. To read Satnam’s winning essay, just click here.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics wins a Prose Award
We are very proud and happy to announce that the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics has won the 2008 Prose award for the Best Multi-Volume Reference Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Dictionary was also a finalist and received an honourable mention in the Best eProduct category. The Prose Awards are judged annually by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
Chosen by CHOICE
CHOICE, ALA’s premier review journal for academic librarians, named the Dictionary on their 2008 ‘Outstanding Academic Title List’.
New Palgrave contributors are Economist’s “Bright Young Things”
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics authors Xavier Gabaix and Mark Melitz have been named by their peers as two of the best young economists in the world. To read the article in The Economist, please click here. Twenty years ago, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman was on the same list!
Paul Krugman, Palgrave author and editor, just published an open letter in Rolling Stone magazine to President Obama outlining his plan for recovering from our current crisis. The complete article is here.
March 2009 Update
The articles from our March 2009 update can be accessed from the links below. This update included eight new, specifically commissioned articles.New articles:
The Barings Crisis by Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College, USAHeavy 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
The Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference February 27– March 1, 2009
Palgrave Macmillan will be in attendance at the Eastern Economic Association annual conference at the Sheraton New York Hotel in late February/early March. More information about the conference can be found here.
Key Articles on the Financial Crisis
Palgrave Macmillan publishes a variety of peer-reviewed journals in finance and economics. We have selected a variety of just-published articles, which go to the heart of the current global financial crisis. These articles are free to view until June 2009.
www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/free_articles.html
Online Trials Now Available
Free 2 week trials of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online are now available to prospective institutional subscribers worldwide. Please contact librarians@palgrave.com to arrange your trial today.
December 2008 Update
The articles from our December 2008 update can be accessed from the links below. Ths 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, IcelandEconomy 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 GeeAmoroso, 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
September 2008 Update
The articles from our very 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:
Demography of the Ancient World by Walter Scheidel, USAHutchison, Terrence Wilmot (1912-2007) by Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham, UK
Patent Pools by Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Stigma by Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; and Lawrence Blume, Cornell University, USA
Thin Markets by Marzena Rostek and Marek Weretka
New biographies:
Abbott, Edith by P.KerrAkerman, 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
1 January 2008
Publication Date Confirmed
The new edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics will be published in print and online on 30th May 2008, although the online edition will be available for trialling from March 2008: contact us to request a trial today.
