ECONOMIC HISTORY

Economic history is the study of economic change, and of economic phenomena in the past. Economic history is undertaken using both historical methods and the application of economic theory.

Practitioners and advocates of the first approach, which was for a long time dominant in the United Kingdom, generally regarded economic history as being either an independent discipline or a subfield of history. Practitioners of the second approach, which is more influential in the United States and rapidly extending worldwide, usually regard economic history as a subfield of economics. The term cliometrics (a reference to Clio, the Muse of history) is used to describe the application of econometric techniques to the study of economic history. In France, economic theory and demographics was early integrated into mainstream historiography due to the large inpact of the Annales School of history from the 1920s and onwards.

See also

• Price revolution
• History of economic thought
• History of international trade
• List of recessions
• List of countries by past GDP (PPP) - For historical GDP (PPP) figures from 1 CE to 1998 CE
• List of countries by past GDP (Nominal) - For historical GDP (Nominal) figures from 1998 to 2003

External links

Economic History Services

• EH.Net Economic History Services - Includes Economic History Encyclopedia, Ask the Professor, Book Reviews, databases, directories, bibliographies, mailing lists, and an inflation calculator.
• Economic History Association

By country

• EH.Net Encyclopedia:
  • Australia
  • Hawaii
  • Hong Kong
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Malaysia
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Taiwan
  • Uruguay

Data

• Flandreau: Global Finance data series
• Historicalstatistics.org - Links to historical economic statistics for different countries and regions.

Other

• XIV International Economic History Conference (2006)

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