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This paper discusses the similarities and differences in the plurality of practices regarding the use of interviews by historians of economics - i.e., either the use of someone else's interviews as sources or the use of interviews conducted by the historian for her or his work.
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The explicit concepts of a central bank and monetary policy were not fully articulated until the 20th century, although, with some degree of circumspection, they can be used retrospectively in regard to earlier times. The oldest central banks were hardly central banks in the modern sense at...
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addresses the role of the man in shaping how we think about economics and its history, and in influencing new generations of …
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A review of Andrés Álvarez and Juan Santiago Correa's book on the history of political and economic ideas in Colombia …
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to instructors who might be teaching a history of economic thought course to undergraduates for the first time or who … have perhaps been teaching for a while but would like to refresh their courses. We sketch the history of courses in the … history of economic thought, the expanding scope and research activity in the field, and offer suggestions and resources for a …
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The work of Raúl Prebisch is typically summarized by two of his important contributions to development economics: the center-periphery paradigm together with his diagnosis of Latin America's development struggles. Recent investigations have, however, shed light on the nature of Prebisch's early...
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Experimental economists increasingly apply econometric techniques to interpret their data, as suggests the emergence of "experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental economics (EE). This article aims to address this...
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contribution is twofold: in terms of method and in terms of object. Methodologically, we blend traditional qualitative history of …
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Ben Bernanke researched monetary policy for over 25 years prior to becoming a policymaker, and his two-term career as Chairman of the Federal Reserve featured a severe recession coupled with a financial crisis, a chief subject of Bernanke's research. His reaction to economic events is noteworthy...
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history of their discipline. This paper traces the effects of positivism in economics, then argues that the history of …
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