Economic history

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Economic history is the study of economic change, and of economic phenomena in the past. Economic history is undertaken using both historical methods and the application of economic theory.

Practitioners and advocates of the first approach, which was for a long time dominant in the United Kingdom, generally regarded economic history as being either an independent discipline or a subfield of history. Practitioners of the second approach, which is more influential in the United States and rapidly extending worldwide, usually regard economic history as a subfield of economics. The term cliometrics (a reference to Clio, the Muse of history) is used to describe the application of econometric techniques to the study of economic history. In France, economic theory and demographics was early integrated into mainstream historiography due to the large impact of the Annales School of history from the 1920s and onwards.

Economic history has been a contentious issue in the United Kingdom for many years. The London School of Economics and Oxbridge had numerous duals over the separation of Economics and Economic theory. Oxbridge believed that pure economics involved a component of economic history and that the two were irreversibly entangled. The new-kid-on-the-block, the London School of Economics (LSE), fought for a different case: they believed that Economic history warranted its own course, program, study and research apart from pure or standard economics. Eventually, over the long run, the LSE seems to have had it right: many schools in the UK as well as the US have now developed programs in economics history which have their roots in the LSE model of separating economics and economic history.

List of Economic Histories by country

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EAEPE
Price revolution
History of economic thought
History of international trade
List of recessions
List of countries by past GDP (PPP) - For historical GDP (PPP) figures from 1 CE to 1998 CE
List of countries by past GDP (Nominal) - For historical GDP (Nominal) figures from 1998 to 2003

[edit] External links

[edit] Economic History Services

EH.Net Economic History Services - Includes Economic History Encyclopedia, Ask the Professor, Book Reviews, databases, directories, bibliographies, mailing lists, and an inflation calculator.
International Economic History Association (IEHA)
Economic History Association