Mark Blaug

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Mark Blaug
FBA
Born
Norbert Blauaug

3 April 1927
The Hague, Netherlands
Died18 November 2011(2011-11-18) (aged 84)
Peter Tavy, Devon, United Kingdom
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
InfluencesGeorge Stigler
Academic work
DisciplineEconomist
InstitutionsUniversity of Buckingham
AwardsFellow of the British Academy (FBA)
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Mark Blaug FBA (/blɔːɡ/;[1] 3 April 1927 – 18 November 2011) was a Dutch-born British economist (naturalised in 1982), who covered a broad range of topics during his long career.[2]

He was married to Ruth Towse.

Life and work

Blaug was born on 3 April 1927 in The Hague as Norbert Blauaug.[3] In 1955 Blaug received his PhD from Columbia University in New York under the supervision of George Stigler. Besides shorter periods in public service and in international organisations he has held academic appointments in – among others – Yale University, the University of London, the London School of Economics, the University of Exeter and the University of Buckingham. He was visiting professor in the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where he was also co-director of CHIMES (Center for History in Management and Economics).

Mark Blaug made far reaching contributions to a range of topics in economic thought throughout his career. Apart from valuable contributions to the economics of art and the economics of education, he is best known for his work in history of economic thought and the methodology of economics.

He died on 18 November 2011 in Peter Tavy, Devon.[4]

Honours

Selected publications

Books

  • Blaug, Mark (1958). Ricardian economics: a historical study (volume 8 of Yale studies in economics) (1st ed.). New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
Reprinted as: Blaug, Mark (2012). Ricardian economics: a historical study (volume 8 of Yale studies in economics). Whitefish, MT: Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 9781258447861.
Review: Spiegel, Henry W. (January 1959). "Ricardian economics: a historical study (book review)". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 321 (1): 197–198. doi:10.1177/000271625932100176. S2CID 145396784.
  • Blaug, Mark (1962). Economic theory in retrospect (1st ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press.
Revised as: Blaug, Mark (1997). Economic theory in retrospect (5th ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521577014 – via Internet Archive.
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  • Blaug, Mark (1974). The Cambridge Revolution: Success or Failure? (1st ed.). London: Institute of Economic Affairs. ISBN 9780255360623.
  • Blaug, Mark (1980). The methodology of economics, or, How economists explain. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521294379.
Revised as: Blaug, Mark (1992). The methodology of economics, or, how economists explain. Cambridge New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521436786 – via Internet Archive.
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  • Blaug, Mark (1985). Great economists since Keynes: an introduction to the lives & works of one hundred modern economists. Brighton: Wheatsheaf. ISBN 9781858986920.
Revised as: Blaug, Mark (1998). Great economists since Keynes: an introduction to the lives & works of one hundred modern economists (2nd ed.). Cheltenham, Glos, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar – via Internet Archive.

Chapters in books

  • Sen, Amartya (2012), "Development as capability expansion", in Saegert, Susan; DeFilippis, James (eds.), The community development reader, New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415507769
  • Blaug, Mark (2005), "The social sciences: economics (volume 27)", in Goetz, Philip W.; MacHenry, Robert; Hoiberg, Dale H. (eds.), The New Encyclopædia Britannica (15th ed.), Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, pp. 343–352, ISBN 9781593392369

Journal articles

Anthologies

  • 'Pioneers in Economics'. In 1991 and 1992 Blaug edited a series of fifty volumes, with reprints of journal articles on the history of economic thought, under the series title 'Pioneers in Economics'. The series was published by Edward Elgar Publishing.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ A Conversation With Mark Blaug
  2. ↑ "Weekly Philo economics: Mark Blaug (1927–2011) – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science". Newappsblog.com. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  3. 1 2 A. Heertje. "Mark Blaug - Levensbericht". Levensberichten en Herdenkingen 2017 (in Dutch). Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.Category:CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl)
  4. 1 2 Denis O'Brien. "Mark Blaug 1927–2011" (PDF). British Academy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "Who's Who in Economics, Fourth Edition". www.e-elgar.com. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  6. ↑ For an overview of the 'Pioneers in Economics' series, see: this page on the website of Edgar Elgar.
  7. ↑ Backhouse, Roger E. (September 1993). "Portrait of a Discipline? Mark Blaug's Pioneers in Economics. A Review Article". The Manchester School. LXI (3): 302–313. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9957.1993.tb00238.x.(subscription required)Category:Pages containing links to subscription-only content

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