The Theoretical Tools of the Economic Historian

Douglass North

Chapter 2 in Economics in the Long View, 1982, pp 15-26 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The economic history we write is no better than the tools that we employ. There are only three alternative sets of theoretical tools available to the economic historian: classical, neoclassical, and Marxian. How blunt are they?

Keywords: Transaction Cost; Capital Stock; Economic Institution; Economic Historian; Supply Curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06287-4_2

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