Roger E. Backhouse was born in Suffolk in 1951 and educated at the universities of Bristol (B.Sc. in Economics and Economic History) and Birmingham (Ph.D. in Economics). Since 1996 he has been Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham, where he has taught since 1980. Previously he taught Economics at University College London (1975–7) and the University of Keele (1977–9). From 1998 to 2000 he held a British Academy Research Readership. He has also taught courses in the history of economics at the universities of Bristol, Buckingham and Oporto. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought and Editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. As well as contributing articles on economics to numerous journals, he is the author and editor of many books, including A History of Modern Economic Analysis (1985), Economists and the Economy (1988; second edition, 1994), Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory (1999), Exemplary Economists (co-editor with Roger Middleton, 2000) and Toward a History of Applied Economics (co-editor with Jeff Biddle, 2000).