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Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof …
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Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists’ policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative....
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Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof …
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This paper presents a new price series for sugar in Sweden, or more exactly Stockholm, in a long-term perspective (1624 …–1900). Prior to this, no price data has been available from Sweden for this commodity. The paper is devoted to presenting source …-related and technical aspects of the price series, as well as the price series as such. Analysis of the development of prices will …
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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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