A Contemporary Historiography of Economics

ISBN-13: 9780367665500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Till D?ppe; E. Roy Weintraub

Opis

In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This book brings together leading contributors to provide, for the first time, a methodological overview of the historiography of economics.

Spis treści

Introduction, E. Roy Weintraub Part I: Memories in action 1. Autobiographical memory and the historiography of economics, E. Roy Weintraub 2. Dealing with the personal in the contemporary history of economics, Till Düppe 3. Interviews: Some methodological and historiographical issues of oral sources, Dorian Jullien 4. The witness seminar: Method, results, and implications, Harro Maas Part II: Quantitative histories of economics 5. Social network analysis: A complementary method of discovery for the history of economics, François Claveau and Catherine Herfeld 6. Prosopography: The missing link in the history of economics, Andrej Svorenčík Part III: Histories of the teaching of economics 7. Syllabi and examinations, Irwin Collier 8. Textbooks in the historiography of recent economics, Yann Giraud Part IV: Material histories of economics 9. Artifacts in the contemporary history of economics, Verena Halsmayer 10. Reading popular histories of economics, Tiago Mata 11. Detectives, storytellers, and hackers: Historians of economics in an age of social media, Beatrice Cherrier, Afterword, Till Düppe

O autorze

Till Düppe is Professor of Economics at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada.

E. Roy Weintraub is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Duke University, USA.