Economic History, Pure and Applied
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4853079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rondo Cameron (Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-27 |
| Publication date | 1976-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700094481 |
| OpenAlex | W1968069628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
C P. Kindleberger once described economic history as "great fun" but not very useful for understanding what happens in the real world. W. N. Parker, on the other hand, doesn't regard it as at all amusing, but terribly important. Within that range, surely, each of us can locate his own ratio of practicality to enjoyment inherent in the pursuit of economic history. I myself was drawn to the study of economic history, even before I was aware of its existence-in fact, it was my youthful intention to invent the discipline-by two distinct motives. On the one hand, I wanted to enter (or create) a profession in which the work itself would yield intellectual pleasure. At the same time, having just lived through the longest depression in modern times and the most destructive war in history, I wanted to do something that would be useful to society. History, I knew, was interesting. Economics, I assumed, was important. I therefore resolved to give up the study of engineering, which had occupied me briefly before the war, and to create the new discipline of economic history. I was mildly surprised to discover upon enrolling in the Yale Studies for Returning Servicemen that the discipline did, indeed, already exist, and was, furthermore, ably represented at Yale by none other than Harold F. Williamson
Aesthetics · Economics · Great Depression · Pleasure · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Yield (engineering) · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
The rise of the British coal industry
The conditions of economic progress
The agrarian history of Western Europe, A.D. 500-1850.
The Dutch rural economy in the Golden Age, 1500-1700.
Why growth rates differ
British economic growth, 1688-1959
The economics of technological change
Strategy and Structure
Das Wachstum der deutschen Wirtschaft seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
Invention and Economic Growth
The Rise of the Western World
Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function
Capital Formation by Education
The Role of Governments in Economic Growth in Early Modern Times
Economic Consequences of Organized Violence
Beyond the New Economic History
From Old to New to Old in Economic History
Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America
Income and Wealth of the United States
The adoption of coke-smelting by the British iron industry, 1709–1790
A Long-Range View of World Population Growth
Income and Wealth of the United States
The Theory of Economic Progress
The Study of Economic History
Air Pollution and Fuel Crises in Preindustrial London, 1250-1650
Economic Growth and Stagnation in France, 1815-1914
Technological Change in the British Wrought Iron Industry, 1750-1815
L'économie française
Europe's Second Logistic
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2006 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |