The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions
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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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.
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ea7584ec7184966b5c133e680f269142022-12-21T21:10:41Zengopenjournals.nlTijdschrift 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://acc.openjournals.nl/tseg/article/view/8292economic historyglobalizationregions |
| spellingShingle | Pim De Zwart The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis economic history globalization regions |
| title | 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 |
| title_short | The Future of Global Economic History. Regional Comparisons to Address Global Questions |
| title_sort | future of global economic history regional comparisons to address global questions |
| topic | economic history globalization regions |
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