Economic history: "an isthmus joining two great continents"?

Arbeitspapier

This paper offers (yet another) reflection on the history and current status of economic history. No other sub-discipline of economics or history has tried so hard to be loved as economic history. That love is unrequited, because economic history's problem is existential: it is an inherently interdisciplinary field. Economists and historians are interested in only small parts of what economic history should embrace. Some examples are given of how narrow views of the past the impoverish research. Not all is gloom and doom, however. The controversies economic history provokes and the insights it provides touch on issues that resonate and that will continue to do so.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP20/01

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Economic History ; Cliometrics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ó Gráda, Cormac
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research
• (where): Dublin
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228181
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET