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Not many authors have analysed the economic history of Karnataka and rarely do we find any systematic account of …, crop diversity and learning from the history of agriculture. …
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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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The article explores the problem of boudaries between economics and history. The richeness that derives by crossing the … boundaries is explained with examples from the history of contemporary Italy. …
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the long history of the argumentative tradition in India, and its continuing relevance today. The intellectual largeness …The past and present of India can be seen in many different perspectives. There is a case for focusing particularly on … of India links closely with the reach of our argumentative tradition. There are lots of economic and political issues …
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