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Handbook of historical economics [electronic resource]
서명 / 저자 Handbook of historical economics [electronic resource] / edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico
발행사항 London : Academic Press, 2021.
Online Access https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128158746URL

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청구기호 HC21
형태사항 1 online resource
언어 English
일반주기 Includes index.
내용 Front Cover -- The Handbook of Historical Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Merger or acquisition? An introduction to The Handbook of Historical Economics -- 1 Historical Economics -- 2 Sources, methods, models, topics -- 2.1 Part 1: The evolution of the discipline -- 2.2 Part 2: Sources, methods, and models -- 2.3 Part 3: Topics -- 3 The challenges of Historical Economics -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Part 1 What is historical economics -- 1 The economic history of economic history: the evolution of a field in economics -- 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Economics and economic history in the United States before World War Two -- 1.3 The cliometrics revolution -- 1.4 Not your father's economic history -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 The two revolutions in economic history -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Cliometric Revolution -- 2.3 Intermezzo: economic history at the turn of the 20th century -- 2.4 The Second Revolution: a general view -- 2.5 The Second Revolution: beyond the traditional boundaries of economic history -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 2.7 Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 History as evolution -- 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The benefits of cultural evolution -- 3.2.1 Cultural evolution saves on information costs -- 3.2.1.1 Theory -- 3.2.1.2 Evidence -- 3.2.2 Cultural evolution is cumulative -- 3.2.2.1 Theory -- 3.2.2.2 Evidence -- 3.3 Insights from a recognition of history as evolution -- 3.3.1 Environmental mismatch -- 3.3.1.1 Endogenous mismatch -- 3.3.2 Education and cultural evolution -- 3.3.2.1 Innovation and the collective brain -- 3.3.3 How and why history matters -- 3.3.3.1 Kludges -- 3.3.4 Group-level selection -- 3.3.5 Biology, sex, and gender -- 3.4 Contributions of economics to cultural evolution 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part 2 Sources and methods -- 4 Historical data: where to find them, how to use them -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Geographical data -- 4.2.1 Assessing the suitability of geographic data -- 4.2.2 Projections, inaccurate or sketched maps, distance measures -- 4.2.3 Reconciling changing unit boundaries -- 4.2.4 Detailed data presentation: a practical guide using GIS -- 4.2.5 Other geographical data -- 4.2.5.1 FAO GAEZ -- 4.2.5.2 Rivers -- 4.2.5.3 Elevation -- 4.2.5.4 Climate data -- 4.3 Ethnographic data -- 4.3.1 Political characteristics 4.3.2 Economic characteristics -- 4.3.3 Cultural characteristics -- 4.3.4 Connecting the past to the present -- 4.4 Censuses -- 4.4.1 The use of complete count population censuses -- 4.4.2 Linking historical information using names -- 4.4.3 Machine learning algorithm -- 4.5 Other historical data -- 4.5.1 Military history -- 4.5.2 Transportation networks -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- 5 The use of archaeological data in economics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The stone age -- 5.2.1 The Paleolithic -- 5.2.2 The Neolithic -- 5.3 Persistent economic disparities -- 5.4 The rise of the state
주제 Economic history.
Economic history. --fast --(OCoLC)fst00901974
ISBN 9780128162682q(electronic bk.) 0128162686q(electronic bk.) 9780128158746q(electronic bk.) 0128158743
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