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Kevin D. Hoover

American economist (born 1955) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kevin D. Hoover
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Kevin Douglas Hoover (born May 3, 1955) is Professor of Economics and Philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy 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]

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Hoover is most noted for his work in the history and methodology of macroeconomics, the philosophy of causation and empirical methods of causal inference applicable to macroeconomics, as well as to search methods in econometrics more generally. 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 (1988) and Causality in Macroeconomics (2001), and Peirce's Science of Economics and Economics of Science (forthcoming 2026). 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]

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  • The New Classical Macroeconomics. Oxford: Blackwell. 1988.
  • Causality in Macroeconomics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0521002882.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  • Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics. Cambridge University Press. 2012.

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