forecasting has not lost its importance. Futures Past considers the history and present state of economic forecasting, giving a … societies, thereby making a broader claim for greater interdisciplinary cooperation in the history of economics. …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …