The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT

Peter Temin

History of Political Economy, 2014, vol. 46, issue 5, 337-350

Abstract: This article recalls the unity of economics and history at MIT before the Second World War and their divergence thereafter. Economic history at MIT reached its peak in the 1970s, with three teachers of the subject to graduates and undergraduates alike. It declined until economic history vanished both from the faculty and from the graduate program around 2010. The cost of this decline to current education and scholarship is suggested at the end of the narrative.

Keywords: MIT; economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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