
The Future of Economic History
Alexander J. Field(Editor)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 6. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 356 pages
978-94-010-7967-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection represents a modest attempt to chart a new course for the intellectual discipline known as economic history. (The book is not about productivity growth in the 1990s, lest the title give rise to any confusion.) As a group, these essays suggest new and potentially fruitful areas or approaches for research and at the same time address weaknesses in past efforts. One important audience will be graduate students attempting to decide whether to write a dissertation in economic history, or trying to select or refine dissertation topics in the area, and determine how to approach them. Some of the essays will most certainly be appropriate additions to the or semester courses in economic history that remain a fixture in quarter graduate economics training programs. A second audience should be established scholars who are now or have in the past done research in economic history and are interested in the perspectives of a relatively younger group of scholars. The term "younger" is used here advisedly to describe a group of scholars born between 1943 and 1954. Nevertheless, the authors of these essays can on at least one dimension be distinguished from the pathbreaking new economic his torians who established their academic reputations in the early 1960s. Indeed, the contributors to this volume include students of such pioneers as Richard Easterlin, Albert Fishlow, William Parker, and Jeffrey Williamson.
Reviews / Votes
` ... it will be of substantial help to economic historians themselves, especially those who teach graduate courses in economics departments and want to introduce their students to a rich and complex literature. 'Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 27, March 1989.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XI, 356 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-010-7967-9 (9789401079679)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-3269-2
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Alexander J. Field
The Future of Economic History
Book
03/1987
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€109.13
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Content
1 The Future of Economic History.- 2 Macroeconomics and History.- 3 The Exploration of Economic Change: The Contribution of Economic History to Development Economics.- 4 General Equilibrium Models and Research in Economic History.- 5 Economic History and Historical Demography: Past, Present, and Future.- 6 Theory and History in Marxian Economics.- 7 Labor History and Labor Economics.