Table of Contents

Introduction, Roger E. Backhouse, Birmingham University and Jeff Biddle, Michigan State University The Normative Economics of Statistical Quality Control in WWII, Judy Klein Atomic Energy and the Application of Early Models of Technological Chance in Economics, 1946-1954, Warren Young, Bar Ilan University, Israel The Rationality of Economic Forecasts, Robert Goldfarb, George Washington University and Herman Stekler, George Washington University The Very Idea of Applying Economics: the Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents, Thomas C. Leonard, Princeton University On the Concept of Applied Economics: Lessons from Cambridge Economics and the History of Growth Theories, Flavio Comim, St. Edmunds College, Cambridge Political Economy and Applied Economics: The Scottish Tradition in the Twentieth-Century, Alistair Dow, Glasgow Caledonian University, Sheila Dow, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Alan Hutton, Glasgow Caledonian University Strategic Games: From Theory to Application, Robert W. Dimand, Brock University, Ontario Personnel/Human Resource Management: Its Roots as Applied Economics, Bruce E. Kaufman, Georgia State University The Emergence of a New Branch of Economics: The Economics of Education, Pedro Nuno Teixeira, University of Porto, Portugal Public Choice Analysis as a Case Study in the Professionalization of Economics, Steven G. Medema, University of Colorado at Denver Economic Geography and Economic Policy in Twentieth-Century North America, Steven Meardon, Williams College