Mark Blaug

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Mark Blaug (born April 3, 1927 in The Hague , † November 18, 2011 in Dartmouth ) was a British economist .

As part of the western campaign , the Netherlands was occupied by the Wehrmacht in 1940 . As a schoolboy, Blaug fled the Netherlands to Great Britain that year. A little later, his parents managed to escape to the United States, where Mark Blaug followed with his brother in 1942. He finished his education in the United States. While teaching at Yale University (1954–1962), his most famous work, Economic Theory in Retrospect , was written on the history of economic thought. He remained connected to this topic for a lifetime. In his view, the only way to truly understand an economic theory is to know where it came from and how it evolved. In particular, the institutional and historical context is necessary for a deeper understanding. He later taught at the University of London for 20 years and also at the London School of Economics from 1963–1978 . In 1980 he published his second most important work The methodology of economics: Or how economists explain , which was reprinted in 1992.

In 1989 he was elected a member of the British Academy .

Selected Works

  • Economic Theory in Retrospect (1962)
  • Introduction to the Economics of Education (1970)
  • The Cambridge Revolution. Success or Failure? (1974)
  • The Methodology of Economics (1980) ( PDF file )
  • Who's Who in Economics? (Ed. With Howard Vane, 1982)
  • Economic History and the History of Economics (1986)
  • The Economics of Education and the Education of an Economist (1987)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The University of Buckingham, Sad loss of Professor Mark Blaug ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 21, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buckingham.ac.uk
  2. ^ Royal Economic Society, Mark Blaug
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Blaug, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 2011
Place of death Dartmouth