The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2018), 3rd ed., is a twenty-volume reference work on economics published by Palgrave Macmillan. It contains around 3,000 entries, including many classic essays from the original Inglis Palgrave Dictionary, and a significant increase in new entries from the previous editions by the most prominent economists in the field, among them 36 winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.[1] Articles are classified according to Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes.[2]

The New Palgrave is also available in a hyperlinked online version. Online content is added to the 2018 edition, and a 4th edition under the editorship of J. Barkley Rosser Jr., Esteban Pérez Caldentey, and Matías Vernengo will be published in the future. The first edition was titled The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987), was and edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, as a way of recovering the legacy of Inglis Palgrave famous dictionary. It was published in four volumes, while the second edition was under the direction of Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume and was published in eight volumes.[3] Both are discussed in a section below.

Access to full-text articles (for all editions and post-2018 updates) are available online by subscription, whether of an organization, a person, or a person through an organization.[4][5]

  1. ^ Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E. (2008). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (8 volume set) (2nd ed.). Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333786765.
  2. ^ Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E., eds. (2008). "Appendix IV – subject index". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd ed.). Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 854–69. ISBN 9780333786765.
  3. ^ Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter K. (1987). The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (2nd ed.). London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen. ISBN 9780333740408.
  4. ^ "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online: Help". Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
  5. ^ "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online: About". Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2015-02-07.