Economics and history: Analyzing serfdom

Sheilagh Ogilvie

No _200, Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: Economics and history are often regarded as antithetical. This paper argues the opposite. It builds its case by showing how economics and history provide complementary approaches to analyzing a fundamental historical institution: serfdom. The paper scrutinizes three questions: how serfdom shaped peasant choices, how it constrained those choices, and how it affected entire societies. By working together, economics and history have generated better answers to these questions than either discipline could have achieved in isolation. Economic and historical approaches, the paper concludes, are not substitutes but complements.

Date: 2022-10-01
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