Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...

It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise of empirical work: it involves a new...