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AN ECONOMIST'S GUIDE TO ECONOMIC HISTORY

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Table of Contents

1: ​Introduction, or Why We Started This Project (Blum and Colvin)
 
Part I: Purpose, Philosophy and Pedagogy of Economic History
2: Economics versus History (Colvin and Wagenaar)
3: Economics, Economic History and Historical Data (Geloso)
4: Economic Theory and Economic History (Gilles)
5: Economic History and the Policymaker (Leunig)
6: Economic History, the History of Economic Thought and Economic Policy (Brownlow)
7: Teaching Economics with Economic History (Flückiger)
 
Part II: Questions and Themes in Economic History
8: Money and Central Banking (Turner)
9: Globalisation and Trade (de Bromhead)
10: Migration and Labour Markets (Braun)
11: Financial Institutions and Markets (Rogers)
12: Bubbles and Crises (Quinn)
13: Sovereign Debt and State Financing (Neal)
14: Health and Development (Arthi)
15: Education and Human Capital (Becker)
16: Famine and Disease (Alfani and Ó Gráda)
17: Women and Children (Humphries)
18: Slavery and Discrimination (Steckel)
19: Crime and Violence (Gray)
20: Business Ownership and Organisation (Aldous)
21: Competition and Collusion (Donges)
22: Human Resources and Incentive Contracts (Seltzer)
23: Global Divergence and Economic Change (Rubin)
24: Industrial Revolution and British Exceptionalism (Colvin and de Pleijt)
25: Innovation and Technical Change (Bakker)
26: Culture and Religion (Colvin)
27: Agriculture and Rural Development (Sharp)
28: Environment and Natural Resources (McLaughlin)
 
Part III: Eras, Regions and Contexts in Economic History
29: Economic Prehistory (Rosenstock)
30: The World Wars (Eloranta)
31: Western Europe (Blum)
32: Central and Eastern Europe (Foldvari)
33: Sub-Saharan Africa (Moradi)
34: South Asia (Roy)
35: East Asia (Morgan)
36: Australasia (Oxley)
37: North America (Fishback)
38: Latin America (Weller)
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Part IV: Methods and Techniques in Economic History
39: Impact and Communication (Stephenson)
40: Publishing Economic History (Collins)
41: Archival Evidence (Brownlow)
42: Case Studies (A. de Jong and van Driel)
43: Analytic Narratives (Koyama)
44: Measurement and Metrics (Blum)
45: Econometric Identification (Blum and Dimico)
46: Historical National Accounting (H. de Jong and Palma)
47: Productivity, Innovation and Social Savings (Bakker)
49: Frontier Analysis (Woltjer)
49: Geospatial Information Systems (Johnson)
50: Network Analysis (Giesler Mesevage)

And also:
​Economic History Data Visualisations (McCrea)
Economic History Jokes (Blum, Colvin and McLaughlin)
Economic History Haiku (Ziliak)
Economic History Cartoons (Neill)
Matthias Blum and Christopher L. Colvin (Eds.), An Economist's Guide to Economic History, 
​Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018). 
​DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96568-0. ISBN: ​978-3-319-96567-3.
​© 2018-2022
 Blum and Colvin.