Dans les limbes de l’histoire économique
In 2011, in The Poverty of Clio, Francesco Boldizzoni launched an open attack against cliometrics, a sub-discipline of economics which applies economic theory to past societies. In their introductive section, Christelle Rabier et Pierre Saint-Germier revisit the issues lying beneath the fierce contr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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2016-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/traces/6569 |
| Summary: | In 2011, in The Poverty of Clio, Francesco Boldizzoni launched an open attack against cliometrics, a sub-discipline of economics which applies economic theory to past societies. In their introductive section, Christelle Rabier et Pierre Saint-Germier revisit the issues lying beneath the fierce controversy that erupted as a result, regarding the goals and methods of economic history, and the reasons of its non-reception in France. In the latter, as different methodological paths were trodden, cliometrics has remained a curiosity, as the contributors to this special issue suggest. |
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| ISSN: | 1763-0061 1963-1812 |