Economics Versus History

Christopher Colvin and Homer Wagenaar
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Homer Wagenaar: Queen’s University Belfast

Chapter 2 in An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, 2018, pp 13-20 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economic history is an interdisciplinary field that fuses economics with history, two disciplines that often misunderstand one another. This chapter bridges these two disciplines by discussing archetypical approaches and research strategies in each. The authors contrast the differences between deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning in scholarly enquiry. They conclude with a call for consideration to (historical) context when conducting research in economics and economic history.

JEL-codes: A11 A12 A22 A23 B41 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96568-0_2

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