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. Hoover is most noted for his work in the philosophy and methodology of economics with issues surrounding the modelling of causation. He has been the president of the History of Economics Society and chaired the International Network for Economic Method. He is the editor of the journal History of Political Economy and was (1996-2005) the editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology.[1][2][3][4][5]

Kevin D. Hoover
Born (1955-05-03) May 3, 1955
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionDuke University
FieldMacroeconomics
Alma materNuffield College, Oxford
Doctoral
advisor		Peter Oppenheimer
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Selected publications
  • 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.
gollark: You can use them to approximate functions by just ignoring the last terms, since they're small for small x.
gollark: e^x = 1 + x + x^2/2 + x^3/6 + ..., for example.
gollark: A Taylor series is a way to write a function as a sum of infinitely many ax^n terms.
gollark: Friedrich was saying that people should be taught Taylor serieseseses to avoid them thinking stupid things about the Earth and whatever. I'm saying that even if people somehow knew that they could just fail to apply it.
gollark: This is less pronounced in people who know advanced maths, but I think that's a selection effect.

References
  1. Duke University: Kevin D Hoover
  2. Duke University: Kevin D Hoover
  3. "Institute of New Economic Thinking: Kevin Hoover". Archived from the original on 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  4. History of Economics Society:Past Presidents Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "History of Political Economy:About the Journal". Archived from the original on 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
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