Economics and the Modern Economic Historian

Economic history will likely continue to thrive, even if it will remain a small field within economics. With the increase ease of data collection and digitization, general economists will increasingly use the past as a natural experiment to learn about economics. Economic history has a lot to gain a...

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Published inThe Journal of economic history Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 1240 - 1251
Main Author Abramitzky, Ran
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.12.2015
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Data collection
Economic history
Economic theory
Economics
Economists
Essays
Essays—The Future of Economic History
Historians
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Labor market
The Future of Economic History
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Summary:Economic history will likely continue to thrive, even if it will remain a small field within economics. With the increase ease of data collection and digitization, general economists will increasingly use the past as a natural experiment to learn about economics. Economic history has a lot to gain and not much to lose from staying integrated with economics, even if economists are not as interested in the past for its own sake as we are.
ISSN:0022-0507
1471-6372
DOI:10.1017/S0022050715001667