The Significance of Economic History, and the Fundamental Features of the Economic History of Iran

Bibliographic Data

ID9977540
AuthorsHoma Katouzian (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume38
Issue1
Pages149-166
Publication date2005-02-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIranian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0021086042000336573
OpenAlexW2091101589
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

Just as natural history is the mother of the biological sciences, social history is the mother of the social sciences. Classical political economy was developed in a dynamic era, a period of European history where a series of long-term social developments were approaching their peak in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution of England. It is not at all surprising that Adam Smith and David Hume spent time with the French Physiocrats, notably Quesnay and Turgot, and with the French philosophes , especially though not exclusively Voltaire and Rousseau. It was precisely the dynamic quality of the era that led economic and social and political theorists alike to look into the nature and causes of change, and therefore regard history as a principal source of the foundations of their knowledge. A similar process was taking place, but more slowly, among biologists who were trying to discover the nature of life and the origin of species, and the causes of long-term biological changes through time. Darwinism was in fact the end, not the beginning, of this process

Adam smith · Aesthetics · Darwinism · Economic history · Economics · Epistemology · History of economic thought · Industrial Revolution · Intellectual history · Neoclassical economics · Period (music · Political history · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social Darwinism · Social history (medicine · Social science · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub