Merger or Acquisition? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics

Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico ()

No 28786, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The relationship between history and economics as academic disciplines is methodologically subtle and sociologically contested. If the Cliometric revolution can be characterized as an acquisition of economics by history, the most recent trends in Historical Economics appear to turn this relationship on its head. In this Introduction we read the chapters of the Handbook as a forceful argument in favor of a merger between the two disciplines rather than the acquisition of one by the other; a merger which combines, notably, the detailed knowledge of historical sources, the capability of distilling complex historical processes into a model, and the statistical/econometric skills for identification and estimation.

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Date: 2021-05
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Published as Alberto Bisin, Giovanni Federico, Merger or acquisition? An introduction to The Handbook of Historical Economics, Editor(s): Alberto Bisin, Giovanni Federico, The Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021, Pages xv-xxxviii

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