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Ran Abramitzky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Economics and the modern Economic Historian
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Ran AbramitzkyAbstract:I reflect on the role of modern Economic history in Economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of papers devoted to Economic history in the top-5 Economic journals over the last few decades. I discuss how the study of the past has contributed to Economics by providing ground to test Economic theory, improve Economic policy, understand Economic mechanisms, and answer big Economic questions. Recent graduates in Economic history appear to have roughly similar prospects to those of other economists in the Economics job market. I speculate how the increase in availability of high quality micro level historical data, the decline in costs of digitizing data, and the use of computationally intensive methods to convert large-scale qualitative information into quantitative data might transform Economic history in the future.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.
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Economics and the modern Economic Historian
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015Co-Authors: Ran AbramitzkyAbstract:I reflect on the role of modern Economic history in Economics. I document a substantial increase in the percentage of papers devoted to Economic history in the top-5 Economic journals over the last few decades. I discuss how the study of the past has contributed to Economics by providing ground to test Economic theory, improve Economic policy, understand Economic mechanisms, and answer big Economic questions. Recent graduates in Economic history appear to have roughly similar prospects to those of other economists in the Economics job market. I speculate how the increase in availability of high quality micro level historical data, the decline in costs of digitizing data, and the use of computationally intensive methods to convert large-scale qualitative information into quantitative data might transform Economic history in the future.
Paul M Hohenberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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early modern capitalism Economic and social change in europe 1400 1800 edited by maarten prak london routledge 2001 pp xv 236 90 00
The Journal of Economic History, 2002Co-Authors: Paul M HohenbergAbstract:The economy of early modern Europe has always posed a particular problem for the Economic Historian trying to grasp the big picture. Four centuries, give or take, separate the medieval from the industrial era—two systems that, rightly or wrongly, appear well defined and even understood. While most early modern Historians find in such themes as absolutism, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and exploration convenient pegs on which to hang their particular story, those for whom the past is above all a story of Economic development are not so fortunate. Indeed, one senses in the book under review an almost defensive desire to attract the interest of nonspecialist Economic Historians: we too have something important to say about the sources of Economic growth. However, the swirls and eddies of activity, to say nothing of divergent experiences in smaller and larger regions and limited quantitative data, make it hard to pick out the strand of development that resulted in such clear Economic differences between the Europe of Joan of Arc and that of Napoleon. Gutenberg, Newton, Galileo, and Columbus would seem as important, even to Economic life, as Adam Smith, James Watt, Francois Quesnay, or Abraham Darby. Why is their influence so hard to trace? Early Modern Capitalism, then, tries to find that elusive thread.
Avner Greif - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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institutions innovation and industrialization essays in Economic history and development
Economics Books, 2015Co-Authors: Avner Greif, Laura Lynne Kiesling, John F NyeAbstract:This book brings together a group of leading Economic Historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent Economic Historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays address a host of core Economic questions. What are the origins of markets? How do governments shape our Economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning in pre–Civil War New York, aircraft manufacturing before World War I, and more. The book also features an essay that surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of Economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the Industrial Revolution. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Gergely Baics, Hoyt Bleakley, Fabio Braggion, Joyce Burnette, Louis Cain, Mauricio Drelichman, Narly Dwarkasing, Joseph Ferrie, Noel Johnson, Eric Jones, Mark Koyama, Ralf Meisenzahl, Peter Meyer, Joel Mokyr, Lyndon Moore, Cormac O Grada, Rick Szostak, Carolyn Tuttle, Karine van der Beek, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Simone Wegge.
Robert Higgs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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depression war and cold war studies in political economy
Research Papers in Economics, 2006Co-Authors: Robert HiggsAbstract:Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed Economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War , Robert Higgs, a highly regarded Economic Historian, makes pointed, fresh Economic arguments against war, showing links between government policies and the economy in a clear, accessible way. He boldly questions, for instance, the widely accepted idea that World War II was the chief reason the Depression-era economy recovered. The book as a whole covers American Economic history from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Part I centers on the Depression and World War II. It addresses the impact of government policies on the private sector, the effects of wartime procurement policies on the economy, and the Economic consequences of the transition to a peacetime economy after the victorious end of the war. Part II focuses on the Cold War, particularly on the links between Congress and defense procurement, the level of profits made by defense contractors, and the role of public opinion andnt ideological rhetoric in the maintenance of defense expenditures over time. This new book extends and refines ideas of the earlier book with new interpretations, evidence, and statistical analysis. This book will reach a similar audience of students, researchers, and educated lay people in political economy and Economic history in particular, and in the social sciences in general.
John F Nye - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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institutions innovation and industrialization essays in Economic history and development
Economics Books, 2015Co-Authors: Avner Greif, Laura Lynne Kiesling, John F NyeAbstract:This book brings together a group of leading Economic Historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent Economic Historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays address a host of core Economic questions. What are the origins of markets? How do governments shape our Economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning in pre–Civil War New York, aircraft manufacturing before World War I, and more. The book also features an essay that surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of Economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the Industrial Revolution. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Gergely Baics, Hoyt Bleakley, Fabio Braggion, Joyce Burnette, Louis Cain, Mauricio Drelichman, Narly Dwarkasing, Joseph Ferrie, Noel Johnson, Eric Jones, Mark Koyama, Ralf Meisenzahl, Peter Meyer, Joel Mokyr, Lyndon Moore, Cormac O Grada, Rick Szostak, Carolyn Tuttle, Karine van der Beek, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Simone Wegge.
