Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham and Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His books include Transforming Modern Macroeconomics: The Search for Disequilibrium Microfoundations, 1956-2003 (with Mauro Boianovsky) (2013), Keynes: Capitalist Revolutionary (with Bradley W Bateman) (2011), The Puzzle of Modern Economics (2010) and The Penguin History of Economics (2002). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014.
