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Economic History (economic + history)
Selected AbstractsLESSONS FROM CHINESE ECONOMIC HISTORY, A SYMPOSIUM: INTRODUCTION1PACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 3 2008Kent G. Deng No abstract is available for this article. [source] Intertemporal Substitution of Effort: Some Empirical EvidenceECONOMICA, Issue 280 2003John G. Treble The labour economics literature refers often to effort, but there is little empirical evidence as to how productivity and effort respond to wage rate variations. An unusual natural experiment in which wage rates suffered an exogenous change of two weeks' duration gives some insight into the magnitude of this effect. For a group of workers in Victorian County Durham, the effort response, measured as the impact of a temporary wage rate change on output per shift, dominates the response of attendance. Comparison of the estimates presented here with those in Treble (Journal of Economic History, 61, 414,38, 2001) suggests that the effects are short lived. [source] Economic History of Asia: comparative perspectivesAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2004Pierre Van Der Eng This article surveys studies that provide a comparative perspective on the economic history of Asia. The available paradigms tend to be extrapolations of the relatively well-researched long-term development of Japan and China. It remains to be seen whether these apply to other Asian countries, but they are likely to further comparative research that will help to focus scholarship on the crucial factors in understanding long-term economic development in Asia. [source] Growth theory and industrial revolutions in Britain and AmericaCANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2003Knick Harley A perception of technological change as an economic process with externalities has motivated the development of aggregate models that generate different steady-state growth paths. Economic history has also long been interested in long-run economic growth. Here, a dialogue is presented between growth theory and the historical literature on the industrial revolution in Britain and America's surge to international economic leadership in the late nineteenth century. In conclusion, economists' recent thinking about the microeconomics of technological change has provided fruitful material for the economic historian of growth. Unfortunately, the models of endogenous growth, on the other hand, present too aggregated a view of the economy to prove helpful when confronted with the details of economic history. JEL Classification: N0, N1.1 Théorie de la croissance et révolutions industrielles en Grande Bretagne et en Amérique., La croissance économique à long terme est redevenue un point d'intérêt majeur pour la théorie économique. Une perception du changement technologique comme processus économique porteur d'externalités a engendré le développement de modèles agrégés qui génèrent différents sentiers de croissance en régime permanent. L'histoire économique s'intéresse depuis longtemps à la croissance économique à long terme. Ce texte engage le dialogue entre la théorie de la croissance et la littérature historique à propos de la révolution industrielle en Grande Bretagne et de l'émergence de l'Amérique au statut de leader international à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. On en arrive à la conclusion que les récents développements dans la pensée économique à propos de la micro-économie du changement technologique ont produit des résultats utiles pour l'histoire économique de la croissance. Malheureusement, d'autre part, les modèles de croissance endogène présente une vue trop agrégée de l'économie pour s'avérer utile dans l'examen des détails de l'histoire économique. [source] DO WE REALLY NEED CENTRAL BANKS?ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2009Roland Vaubel An analysis of economic theory and economic history suggests that central banks, with a monopoly of money-issuing services, are not necessary. The often-levelled arguments against private banks issuing money in competition with each other and with central banks do not stand up to close scrutiny. [source] Quantitative economic history: the good of counting , Edited by Joshua L. RosenbloomECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2009NICHOLAS CRAFTS No abstract is available for this article. [source] ,Whatever is, is right'?ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2007Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe Institutions,the structures of rules and norms governing economic transactions,are widely assigned a central role in economic development. Yet economic history is still dominated by the belief that institutions arise and survive because they are economically efficient. This article shows that alternative explanations of institutions, particularly those incorporating distributional effects, are consistent with economic theory and supported by empirical findings. Distributional conflicts provide a better explanation than efficiency for the core economic institutions of pre-industrial Europe: serfdom, the community, the craft guild, and the merchant guild. The article concludes by proposing four desiderata for any economic theory of institutions. [source] The revolution that bit its own tail: how economic history changed our ideas on economic growth , By J.W. DrukkerECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2007Leandro Prados De La Escosura No abstract is available for this article. [source] Eli Heckscher, international trade and economic history , Edited by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G. H. Henriksson, Håkan Lindgren, and Mats LundahlECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2007John J. Mccusker No abstract is available for this article. [source] Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341,1450ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2004BEN DODDS Research on English late medieval economic history has neglected the evidence of tithes as indicators of agrarian output. In this article, methods used by historians of continental Europe have been developed and applied to the Durham Priory accounting material in order to create the first series of tithe-based production indicators for medieval England. The data are manipulated, and presented, to provide insight into long- and short-term trends in aggregate levels of arable production. The series of indicators are then used to examine the evidence for falling output in the late middle ages in the light of our understanding of demographic, economic, and climatic factors. [source] A critical survey of recent research in Chinese economic historyECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2000Kent G. Deng First page of article [source] THE USES OF WALTER: WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE COUNTERFACTUAL IMAGINATIONHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2010BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT ABSTRACT Many authors, both scholarly and otherwise, have asked what might have happened had Walter Benjamin survived his 1940 attempt to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. This essay examines several implicitly or explicitly "counterfactual" thought experiments regarding Benjamin's "survival," including Hannah Arendt's influential "Walter Benjamin: 1892,1940," and asks why our attachment to Benjamin's story has prompted so much counterfactual inquiry. It also explores the larger question of why few intellectual historians ask explicitly counterfactual questions in their work. While counterfactuals have proven invaluable for scholars in diplomatic, military, and economic history, those writing about the history of ideas often seem less concerned with chains of events and contingency than some of their colleagues are,or they attend to contingency in a selective fashion. Thus this essay attends to the ambivalence about the category of contingency that runs through much work in intellectual history. Returning to the case of Walter Benjamin, this essay explores his own tendency to pose "what if?" questions, and then concludes with an attempt to ask a serious counterfactual question about his story. The effort to ask this question reveals one methodological advantage of counterfactual inquiry: the effort to ask such questions often serves as an excellent guide to the prejudices and interests of the historian asking them. By engaging in counterfactual thought experiments, intellectual historians could restore an awareness of sheer contingency to the stories we tell about the major texts and debates of intellectual history. [source] Modern Britain and the New Imperial HistoryHISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2007James Thompson This article reviews recent trends in British studies, particularly the impact of ,four nations' perspectives, and the rise of the new imperial history. It offers a close examination of debates about the relationship between ,nation' and ,empire' in modern British history, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches. The article identifies the need to integrate accounts of empire's impact upon Britain with a broader comparative perspective that embraces mainland Europe, and to combine more cultural concerns with greater attention to political and economic history. [source] Framing the Carolingian EconomyJOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 1 2009MATTHEW INNES This essay argues that the degree of commercialization on Carolingian great estates should not be overstated. Rather, the strategies and ambitions of Carolingian estate managers were primarily determined by a ,domainal' ideology and concerns for good stewardship. Moreover, the structural demands of the Carolingian state may have played a rather more important role in framing economic conditions than is commonly supposed. Here Carolingianists need to learn some of the lessons that have helped to transform the writing of ancient economic history in recent decades. [source] Economic statistics and U.S. agricultural policyAGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 2007Bruce Gardner agricultural policy; data collection and estimation; economic history of U.S. agriculture Abstract Economic statistics can be used to inform policy as it is being designed, avoid policy design mistakes, or implement government programs once they are established into law. Oftentimes, statistics are used for all three purposes. This article considers the relationships between statistics and agricultural policy in the case of the United States. We address first the broad historical picture of U.S. official economic statistics concerning agriculture, and then turn to selected examples that relate policies to economic statistics in more detail. The examples show diversity in the interplay between statistics and policy. Over time, policymakers have asked for more detailed information about the financial situation of individual farm businesses and households, sources of risk in farm returns, and production practices that affect the environment. [source] The ,reversal of fortune' thesis and the compression of history: Perspectives from African and comparative economic history,JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 8 2008Gareth Austin Abstract Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson have dramatically challenged the tendency of economists to confine their empirical search for the causes of economic growth to the recent past. They argue that the kind of institutions established by European colonialists, either protecting private property or extracting rents, resulted in the poorer parts of the pre-colonial world becoming some of the richest economies of today; while transforming some of the more prosperous parts of the non-European world of 1500 into the poorest economies today. This view has been further elaborated for Africa by Nunn, with reference to slave trading. Drawing on African and comparative economic historiography, the present paper endorses the importance of examining growth theories against long-term history: revealing relationships that recur because the situations are similar, as well as because of path dependence as such. But it also argues that the causal relationships involved are more differentiated than is recognised in AJR's formulations. By compressing different historical periods and paths, the ,reversal' thesis over-simplifies the causation. Relatively low labour productivity was a premise of the external slave trades; though the latter greatly reinforced the relative poverty of many Sub-Saharan economies. Again, it is important to distinguish settler and non-settler economies within colonial Africa itself. In the latter case it was in the interests of colonial regimes to support, rather than simply extract from, African economic enterprise. Finally, economic rent and economic growth have often been joint products, including in pre-colonial and colonial Africa; the kinds of institutions that favoured economic growth in certain historical contexts were not necessarily optimal for that purpose in others. AJR have done much to bring development economics and economic history together. The next step is a more flexible conceptual framework, and a more complex explanation. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] HIDDEN DISCIPLINES IN MALAYSIA: THE ROLE OF BUSINESS HISTORY IN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORKAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2009Article first published online: 28 OCT 200, Shakila Yacob business history; business economics; economic history; Malaysian history; multi-disciplinary studies Business history plays a crucial role in the understanding of the history and socioeconomic development of Malaysia. This paper analyses that role through an assessment of the most relevant colonial, post-colonial, and contemporary literature. Malaysian business history adopts a multidisciplinary approach, which has the potential to propel the discipline to address potentially sensitive political issues in Malaysia, though in the past business history's assimilation into other disciplines has discouraged, with notable exceptions, its potential to explore sensitive topics. In conclusion, the paper outlines the challenges faced by Malaysian business history academics and argues for extending the discipline's boundaries. [source] Economic History of Asia: comparative perspectivesAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2004Pierre Van Der Eng This article surveys studies that provide a comparative perspective on the economic history of Asia. The available paradigms tend to be extrapolations of the relatively well-researched long-term development of Japan and China. It remains to be seen whether these apply to other Asian countries, but they are likely to further comparative research that will help to focus scholarship on the crucial factors in understanding long-term economic development in Asia. [source] Flourishing branches, wilting core: research in modern Indian economic historyAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2004Tirthankar Roy The core theme in modern Indian economic history until recently was economic growth in colonial India and models explaining stylised facts about growth or stagnation. From the 1980s, research moved away from the general toward more specific and local issues, a trend that has allowed new questions to be asked, has approached other fields and introduced a healthy scepticism for overarching models. But it also made macro-questions somewhat outdated, thereby weakening the link between history and models of economic growth and development. This essay reviews scholarship on new themes and asks how problems of economic growth can be motivated anew. [source] New Estimates of Australian GDP, 1861,1948/49AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2001Bryan Haig This article uses recently available historical data to compile new estimates of gross domestic product by sector for Australia as an alternative to the estimates by Colin Clark and Noel Butlin. These data are then compared with Clark's and Butlin's series, and with historical experience, as set out by Coghlan in Labour and Industry in Australia (1918). We caution against accepting Butlin's results, and question whether his data, even when reliable, can form the basis for a new interpretation of economic history. [source] Patterns and Prescriptions in Mexican HistoriographyBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2006Alan Knight This article offers a short resumé of recent Mexican historiography in the national (post-1810) period, noting three clusters of innovative research: post-independence politics; Porfirian economic history; and regional studies of the Mexican Revolution. It then addresses the recent call for historians of Mexico and Latin America to ,reclaim the political', analysing the implications of this kind of bold prescription which, it argues, is misguided in both historiographical and political terms. [source] Growth theory and industrial revolutions in Britain and AmericaCANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2003Knick Harley A perception of technological change as an economic process with externalities has motivated the development of aggregate models that generate different steady-state growth paths. Economic history has also long been interested in long-run economic growth. Here, a dialogue is presented between growth theory and the historical literature on the industrial revolution in Britain and America's surge to international economic leadership in the late nineteenth century. In conclusion, economists' recent thinking about the microeconomics of technological change has provided fruitful material for the economic historian of growth. Unfortunately, the models of endogenous growth, on the other hand, present too aggregated a view of the economy to prove helpful when confronted with the details of economic history. JEL Classification: N0, N1.1 Théorie de la croissance et révolutions industrielles en Grande Bretagne et en Amérique., La croissance économique à long terme est redevenue un point d'intérêt majeur pour la théorie économique. Une perception du changement technologique comme processus économique porteur d'externalités a engendré le développement de modèles agrégés qui génèrent différents sentiers de croissance en régime permanent. L'histoire économique s'intéresse depuis longtemps à la croissance économique à long terme. Ce texte engage le dialogue entre la théorie de la croissance et la littérature historique à propos de la révolution industrielle en Grande Bretagne et de l'émergence de l'Amérique au statut de leader international à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. On en arrive à la conclusion que les récents développements dans la pensée économique à propos de la micro-économie du changement technologique ont produit des résultats utiles pour l'histoire économique de la croissance. Malheureusement, d'autre part, les modèles de croissance endogène présente une vue trop agrégée de l'économie pour s'avérer utile dans l'examen des détails de l'histoire économique. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||