We are getting closer and closer to the publication of the Handbook of Historical Economics Giovanni Federico and I are editing for Academic Press.
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We have written an Introduction to the Volume,
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where you can find a brief discussion of all the chapters in the book ... and more:
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where you can find a brief discussion of all the chapters in the book ... and more:
Historical Economics was born arguably in the 1960s, with the so-called Cliometric revolution. Now, arguably, a second revolution is unfolding, as the field is attracting the renewed interest of economists.
Good Historical Economics needs a combination of:
knowledge of sources and detailed historical events and phenomena,
capability of distilling complex historical processes into a model to put forward alternative testable hypotheses, ...
knowledge of sources and detailed historical events and phenomena,
capability of distilling complex historical processes into a model to put forward alternative testable hypotheses, ...
statistical/econometric skills for identification, causal inference, structural estimation, and testing,
detailed knowledge of specific political and socio-economic institutions,
understanding of the role of cultural traits, e.g., ethnic/religious, and of their evolution.
detailed knowledge of specific political and socio-economic institutions,
understanding of the role of cultural traits, e.g., ethnic/religious, and of their evolution.
This Handbook is a step in this direction, and this Introduction written jointly by an economist and an historian, discussing the pitfalls of their own disciplines, should serve as a suggestion that it can be done
PS We hope we can change the photo on the cover into this one: 
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