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"Big data" in economic history. [PDF]
J Econ Hist, 2018 Big data is an exciting prospect for the field of economic history, which has long depended on the acquisition, keying, and cleaning of scarce numerical information about the past.
Gutmann MP, Merchant EK, Roberts E.
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Immigration in American Economic History. [PDF]
J Econ Lit, 2017 The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers.
Abramitzky R, Boustan L.
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Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19. [PDF]
Explor Econ Hist, 2021 Arthi V, Parman J.
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The attractiveness of the project of practical methodology and virtue epistemology for the economic history research [PDF]
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017 Ewa Domańska, a distinguished historian of historiography and the methodologist of history, has provided an insightful commentary on the state of humanities and social sciences.
Damian Bębnowski
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The End of (Economic) History [PDF]
, 2008 Some papers, for reasons which remain at least partially obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history. Such is the case with Keynes' paper "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren", although it never attracted much attention within the economic profession, besides reference here and there to the power of simple economic calculations ...
Jean-Paul Fitoussi
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History of Economic Thought [PDF]
, 2010 The chapter provides an overview of the main areas of research in history of economic thought, that correspond to a classic division of phases of development of the economics discipline from its origins to its present state. Following the Journal of Economic Literature classification, the evolution of economics is subdivided into two phases—namely ...
Tubaro, Paola
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The Economic History of Banking [PDF]
, 2013 Among the most important functions of a financial system is intermediation: channeling the aggregate savings of an economy toward productive use.1 In the absence of intermediators, individuals, firms, and governments in need of finance and savers with surplus funds seeking investment opportunities would have to find each other and negotiate detailed ...
Richard S. Grossman
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Economic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect [PDF]
, 2014 I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both subfields study economic development; the difference is that economic history focuses on high-wage countries while economic development focuses on low-wage economies.
P. Temin
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Applied History, Applied Economics, and Economic History [PDF]
Journal of Applied History, 2019 Abstract As a new field of academic enquiry, applied history has a unique opportunity to learn lessons from other applied fields. In this essay, we set out how we think applied historians can learn from past successes and mistakes of applied economists and economic policymakers in their use, and abuse, of economic theory and economic history.
Colvin, Christopher L., Winfree, Paul
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Genus, 2020 This paper examines astrology, a concept that is considered unscientific by broad segments of the population in the western world. Despite this, astrology remains for some an important source for advice regarding choices in a range of different matters ...
Jonas Helgertz, Kirk Scott
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