Murray Milgate

Murray Milgate is an Australian-born academic economist and Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Queens' College in the University of Cambridge. He is the co-creator and co-editor of the celebrated original edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (1987) together with John Eatwell and Peter Newman.

Biography

Milgate was educated at the University of Sydney and the University of Cambridge where he taught economics before moving to Harvard University in 1984. He returned to Cambridge in 1996. He is best known for his contributions to the dissemination of economic knowledge through his New Palgrave activities and his published writings that focus on exploring: (1) the relation between classical economic theory and Keynesian economics as an alternative to standard neoclassical thinking about the market mechanism; (2) the history of nineteenth-century political economy. An assessment of aspects of the first set of contributions can be found in Dutt and Amadeo's Keynes's Third Alternative.^[1] In 1992 Milgate shared the Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing (from Columbia University Business School) for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance and in 1995 The New Palgrave World of Economics was named among the 100 most influential books since WW2 by the CEEPP at the University of Oxford.^[2] In 2011 his After Adam Smith was awarded the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book on liberal and democratic theory by the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (1992)and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Osaka Gakuin University in Japan since 2008. He is a founding editor of the journal Contributions to Political Economy.

Major Works ^[3]

Capital and Employment. London and New York: Academic Press. 1982.

Keynes's Economics and the Theory of Value and Distribution. London: Duckworth and New York: Oxford University Press. 1983. (With John Eatwell).

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Four volumes. London: Macmillan. 1987. (With John Eatwell and Peter Newman). Paperback edition: 1998.

Critical Issues in Social Thought. London and New York: Academic Press. 1989. (With Cheryl B. Welch).

Ricardian Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1991. (With Shannon C. Stimson).

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. Three volumes. London: Macmillan. 1992. (With Peter Newman and John Eatwell).

After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. (With Shannon C. Stimson). Paperback edition: 2011.

The Fall and Rise of Keynesian Economics. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. 2011. (With John Eatwell).

References

1. ^ A.K. Dutt and E. Amadeo. Keynes's Third Alternative? The Neoricardian Keynesians and the Post Keynesians. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. 1990.
2. ^ Times Literary Supplement, 6th October 1995, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5418361.ece
3. ^ M.Blaug and P. Sturges: Who's Who in Economics. Edward Elgar. 3rd Edition,

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