Eric Hilt has a new paper on “Economic
History, Historical Analysis and the "New History of Capitalism."
He is presenting the paper at the Penn
Economic History Forum. The paper reviews eleven books that have figured prominently
in the New History of Capitalism. It summarizes many of the complaints that
economic historians have made about these works but still makes a plea for
increased dialogue between economic historians and historians of capitalism.
The Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association will
have a session on Cliometrics
in Historical Perspective: In Remembrance of Robert Fogel and Douglas North (follow the
link for abstracts of the papers):
A Cliometric Counterfactual: What If There Had Been
Neither Fogel nor North?
Claude Diebolt
France National Centre for Scientific Research and
University of Strasbourg
Michael Haupert
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
What Fogel and North Got (Spectacularly) Right, and What
They Got (Modestly) Wrong
Deirdre McCloskey
University of Illinois-Chicago
Douglass North, Cliometrics, and the New Institutional
Economics: Continuity or Divergence?
Lee Alston
Indiana University and NBER
Cliometrics and Econometrics
Robert Margo
Boston University and NBER
Here are a couple of links related to Joel Mokyr’s most recent
book A
Culture of Growth: the Origins of the Modern Economy:
Here
is review by Brad De Long
Here
is an interview with Mokyr
