The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions

The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions

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Economic history deals with the process of economic development across the globe in the long-run. In this essay, I put forth ideas about what economic historians should be doing in the next 10 years in terms of content, methodology and the scale of analysis. In terms of content, I suggest that pros...

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Main Author: Pim De Zwart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2018-12-01
Series:Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
Subjects:
economic history
globalization
regions
Online Access:https://tseg.nl/article/view/8292
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spelling doaj-fbeb56e5d4a84350a1dbf4cf57edb4c52021-10-02T18:14:15ZengOpen JournalsTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis1572-17012468-90682018-12-01152-3The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global QuestionsPim De Zwart0Wageningen University Economic history deals with the process of economic development across the globe in the long-run. In this essay, I put forth ideas about what economic historians should be doing in the next 10 years in terms of content, methodology and the scale of analysis. In terms of content, I suggest that prospective research questions should generate what I consider ‘useful knowledge’ and provide two example topics: inequality and globalization. Regarding methodology I argue in favour of the comparative (quantitative) method in order to analyse processes of change in a variety of contexts. The scale of analysis should refocus from the country to the regional level in order to be better able to tease out relevant relationships in a comparative analysis. https://tseg.nl/article/view/8292economic historyglobalizationregions
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The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
economic history
globalization
regions
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title The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
title_short The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
title_full The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
title_fullStr The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
title_full_unstemmed The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
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series Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
issn 1572-1701
2468-9068
publishDate 2018-12-01
description Economic history deals with the process of economic development across the globe in the long-run. In this essay, I put forth ideas about what economic historians should be doing in the next 10 years in terms of content, methodology and the scale of analysis. In terms of content, I suggest that prospective research questions should generate what I consider ‘useful knowledge’ and provide two example topics: inequality and globalization. Regarding methodology I argue in favour of the comparative (quantitative) method in order to analyse processes of change in a variety of contexts. The scale of analysis should refocus from the country to the regional level in order to be better able to tease out relevant relationships in a comparative analysis.
topic economic history
globalization
regions
url https://tseg.nl/article/view/8292
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