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Toward a More Useful Economic History

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  • HOHENBERG, PAUL M.

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Torn between divergent disciples, economic history needs to prove its usefulness as well as its scholarly virtuosity. Innovations in method and data have carried the field forward, but perhaps not fulfilled the claims of their champions. To economics in particular, economic history contributes a richer sense of space and time, and the importance of demographic factors. Three vignettes attempt to illustrate that useful economic history can result from confrontations of past and present that improve our understanding of both. Finally, emerging developments in the underlying fields may herald a more central future role for our discipline.

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  • Hohenberg, Paul M., 2008. "Toward a More Useful Economic History," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(2), pages 339-354, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:68:y:2008:i:02:p:339-354_00
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    1. Claude Diebolt & Michael Haupert, 2021. "The Role of Cliometrics in History and Economics," Working Papers of BETA 2021-26, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.

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