Nomologische Modelle und Theorien als wirtschaftshistorische Emplotments

Preisinger Alexander

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2009, vol. 50, issue 2, 131-146

Abstract: his essay intends to combine Hayden White’s concept of ‘emplotments’ with the function of deductive-nomological statements for the study of economic history. Economic theories and models serve as the framework according to which the selection and ordering of dates, facts and events become both possible and meaningful. The present document will further support this generally accepted proposition by explaining the effect of Hayek’s cognitive theory on those deductive-nomological model-statements, which he designated as ‘patterns’ and which functionally resemble emplotments. A number of examples analysing the critical years of the Weimar Republic will serve to illustrate the means of which historians avail themselves both implicitly and explicitly of these pre-figuring forms in order to classify and narrate the historical situation.

Keywords: Economic History; Epistemology; Narratology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1524/jbwg.2009.50.2.131

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