Kevin Hoover

Kevin Douglas Hoover (born May 3, 1955) is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Duke University. He has previously held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, University of Oxford (Balliol College, Nuffield College, and Lady Margaret Hall), and the University of California, Davis, where he served eight years as chair of the Economics Department. He is a former president of the History of Economics Society and chaired the International Network for Economic Method. He is a former editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and the current editor of the History of Political Economy.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Hoover is most noted for his work in the methodology of macroeconomics with philosophical issues surrounding the modelling of causation. He has also made substantial contributions to the historical and philosophical research on pragmatism and its relevance to economics. His scholarly articles have appeared in American Economic Review, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and History of Political Economy, among others. He has also written and edited more than ten books in the history and philosophy of economics, including the New Classical Macroeconomics (1992) and Causality in Macroeconomics (2011). His work has been recognized by various awards and grants, including the 2015 Craufurd Goodwin Best Article Prize for his "On the Reception of Haavelmo’s Econometric Thought" (2015) and two National Science Foundation grants for his research on causality in economics.^{[5] [6]}

• The New Classical Macroeconomics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1988.
• Causality in Macroeconomics . Cambridge University Press. 2001.
• David R. Henderson, ed. (2008). "New Classical Macroeconomics". Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.
• David R. Henderson, ed. (2008). "Phillips Curve". Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.

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