See You in Valhalla: Comment on 'Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School', by Stefano Fenoaltea

Giovanni Vecchi

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, 2019, vol. 53, issue 2, 49-58

Abstract: This comment argues for a more optimistic view of economic history based on a review of recent developments in the discipline, as well as Fenoaltea’s “Spleen” itself, reading between the lines.

Keywords: Economic History; Cliometrics; Inequality; Household Budgets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 I3 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.26331/1082

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