TY - BOOK ID - 40866584 TI - An economist's guide to economic history AU - Blum, Matthias AU - Colvin, Christopher L. PY - 2018 SN - 3319965689 3319965670 PB - New York, New York : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, DB - UniCat KW - Economic history. KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economics KW - Economics. KW - Economic theory. KW - Popular Science in Economics. KW - Learning & Instruction. KW - Economic History. KW - History of Economic Thought/Methodology. KW - Political Economy/Economic Systems. KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Historia económica KW - Economía general KW - Learning. KW - Instruction. KW - Economic policy. KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Social policy KW - Learning process KW - Comprehension KW - Education KW - Learning, Psychology of. KW - Econometrics. KW - Instructional Psychology. KW - History of Economic Thought and Methodology. KW - Political Economy and Economic Systems. KW - Quantitative Economics. KW - History. KW - Economics, Mathematical KW - Statistics KW - Learning KW - Psychology of learning KW - Educational psychology KW - Learning ability KW - Psychological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40866584 AB - Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’. Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics profession has not learnt from its past. This important and unique book addresses this problem by demonstrating the power of historical thinking in economic research. Concise chapters guide economics lecturers and their students through the field of economic history, demonstrating the use of historical thinking in economic research, and advising them on how they can actively engage with economic history in their teaching and learning. Blum and Colvin bring together important voices in the field to show readers how they can use their existing economics training to explore different facets of economic history. Each chapter introduces a question or topic, historical context or research method and explores how they can be used in economics scholarship and pedagogy. In a century characterised to date by economic uncertainty, bubbles and crashes, An Economist’s Guide to Economic History is essential reading. Matthias Blum and Christopher L. Colvin are economic historians based at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Blum has research interests in measurement, health and wellbeing, and economic development in the long-run. Colvin works on historical banking crises, corporate governance and the economics of religion. Besides teaching and supervising students in economic history, they always make a point of incorporating historical thinking into the other field courses they teach, including econometrics, development economics, industrial organisation and managerial economics. ER -