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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
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.
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.
