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An economist's guide to economic history / Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin, editors.

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Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding 'how we got here'. Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Blum, Matthias (Editor), Colvin, Christopher L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:Palgrave studies in economic history.
Subjects:
Economic history.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, or Why We Started This Project
  • Economics Versus History
  • Economics, Economic History and Historical Data
  • Economic Theory and Economic History
  • Economic History and the Policymaker
  • Economic History, the History of Economic Thought and Economic Policy
  • Teaching Economics with Economic History
  • Money and Central Banking
  • Globalisation and Trade
  • Immigration and Labour Markets
  • Financial Institutions and Markets
  • Financial Crises and Bubbles
  • Sovereign Debt and State Financing
  • Health and Development
  • Education and Human Capital
  • Famine and Disease
  • Women and Children
  • Slavery and Discrimination
  • Crime and Violence
  • Business Ownership and Organisation
  • Competition and Collusion
  • Human Resources and Incentive Contracts
  • Global Divergence and Economic Change
  • Industrial Revolution and British Exceptionalism Innovation and Technical Change
  • Culture and Religion
  • Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Environment and Natural Resources
  • Economic Prehistory
  • The World Wards
  • Western Europe
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Asia
  • East Asia
  • Australasia
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Impact and Communication
  • Publishing Economic History
  • Archival Evidence
  • Case Studies
  • Analytic Narrative
  • Measurement and Metrics
  • Econometric Identification
  • Historical National Accounting
  • Productivity, Innovation and Social Savings
  • Frontier Analysis
  • Geospatial Information Systems
  • Network Analysis.

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