On March 10 Mokyr
and Beckert will discuss the path of economic history at Brown. I have heard this referred to as a debate but the website describes it as a discussion.
Tyler Beck Goodspeed has a paper on Capitalism
and the Historians Revisited. Since discusions of capitalism and hsitory often turn to slavery I will mention that Goodspeed also has a
paper on the long term negative consequences of slavery in Georgia.
Colleeen Dunlavy asks “Whatever
Happened to (American) Economic History and Could the "History of
Capitalism" Become the Newer Economic History?”
Caitlin Rosenthal seeks a quantitative middle ground in a
recent paper in the Journal of the Early Republic. I am
sympathetic to Rosenthal’s argument and I think she does some interesting work,
but if an economist had seen the paper before it was published she might have
referred to econometricians instead of econometrists. Econometrist is a word,
but it is not the one economists generally use.
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