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In the German federal elections on September 22, 2013, for the first time after 64 years, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was not elected to the German federal parliament, the Bundestag, anymore. Less surprising than this fact is the malice of its political opponents with which this landslide...
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The ordo-liberal inspired Social Market Economy that emerged from west German economists and lawyers of the second half of the 1940s has perhaps attracted more attention in the international academic debate. Than prior to the financial crisis that became obvious to a wider public in 2008. Prior...
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This paper reviews recent contributions to the economics and economic history of famine. It provides a context for the … history of famine in the twentieth century, which is unique. During the century, war and totalitarianism produced more famine … for "making famine history." …
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This paper tells the story of the field of the history of economic thought in relation to the changing boundaries … between the disciplines of economics and economic history. The most important period was the late nineteenth century when …, after a couple of decades during which both economists and historians took an interest in the history of economic ideas …
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This paper describes in broad terms the contribution to the history of economic analysis that Denis O'Brien has made. …
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Boldizzoni's attempted resurrection of a realist, non-abstract, historical approach to economic history is learned …’ economic history after the institutionalist turn (despite a context of methodological and socio-political pluralism among the … new philosophical and theoretical foundations for social science history.. KEY Classification-JEL: B29, B40 …
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The paper takes issue with the views expressed by Luis Bértola, Christopher Lloyd and Deirdre McCloskey in their commentaries. Many of the points raised are relevant and worth consideration. However, McCloskey's ill-informed critique is rejected along with her binary opposition between economy...
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A book that reflects on the state-of-the-art in Economic History and discusses the different approaches of current and … past research is highly welcome. Fortunately, Economics, History and Economic History, are nowadays fluently using multi … analysis to our contemporary production. Unfortunately, the study of research methodology and of the History of Economic …
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Nunn (2008) found a negative relationship between past slave exports and economic performance within Africa. Here we investigate these findings and the suggested causal pathway in further detail. Extending the sample period back in time we reveal that the coefficient on slave exports did not...
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