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 ...view moreRoger 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.view less