Here is a link to
Gareth Austin’s Inaugural Lecture
This is his description of the lecture
The lecture discusses
what I would describe as three 'revolutions' in the study of economic history
since the era of Sir John Clapham, the first holder of the chair of economic
history: (1) the cliometric revolution of the 1960s, which applied neoclassical
theory and analytical statistics to the economic past; (2) the emergence in the
1950s-80s of the systematic and continuous study of the economic history of the
non-Western word, what may be called 'The Other Economic History'; and (3) the
attempt, essentially in the present century, reciprocally to integrate the
economic history of the West and the Rest, using quantitative and other
methods. The final part of the lecture will be devoted to the pitfalls and
promise of this endeavour. In practical terms we have a lot still to do to
achieve a genuinely global economic history, based on the principle of
reciprocal comparison. In doing this, we need to combine the best insights from
the cliometric and other traditions of economic history, respecting the different
approaches which historians and economists take to determining causality.
Economic History needs to re-affirm its position as the intersection set of the
disciplines of History and Economics.
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