Kevin Hoover

About Kevin Hoover

Kevin Douglas Hoover (born May 3, 1955) is Professor of Economics and Philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy 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. He is a former president of the History of Economics Society and chaired the International Network for Economic Method. He is a former editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and the current editor of the History of Political Economy. Hoover is most noted for his work in the history and methodology of macroeconomics, the philosophy of causation and empirical methods of causal inference applicable to macroeconomics, as well as to search methods in econometrics more generally. He has also made substantial contributions to the historical and philosophical research on pragmatism and its relevance to economics.