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dc.contributor.authorLloyd, Christopheren
local.source.editorEditor(s): Jeanette Granda, Jurgen Schreiberen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-17T11:48:00Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citationPerspektiven durch Retrospektiven: Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Beiträge. Festschrift für Rolf Walter zum 60. Geburtstag, p. 193-210en
dc.identifier.isbn9783412212094en
dc.identifier.isbn9783412210861en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14274-
dc.description.abstractThe scientific study of the history of economies, which is essential to understanding and explaining the structural dynamics of present economies, is in need of a new general theoretical 'framework'. Ever since the eclipse of the so-called "Old Economic History" in the 1960s and 70s by what became overtime a new orthodoxy, the study of economic history by its self-designated practitioners has become too narrow in its theoretical thinking. The approaches and studies of the sort pursued by the leading Old EH practitioners, such as Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, Michael Postan, Eric Hobsbawm, Fernand Braudel, and Barrington Moore, have become less central to the discourse. Their motivations were to make interdisciplinary and overarching attempts to examine the complex history of whole socio-political-economic systems without abstracting the economy from the totality. Many concepts and theories were employed and the historian's concern with reality, complexity, and contingency were central to the methodology. The "New Economic History", on the other hand, accomplished abstraction, greater quantification, and counterfactualism, all in the interests of precision and concision and explanatory progress, and thereby became an orthodoxy upon which the discipline tended to converge. Trying to be more inclusive and totalising certainly comes at a cost of less precision but does permit inclusion of more possible explanatory variables. Indeed, it is now widely understood that a narrow concentration on explaining economic change by reference to economic factors (narrowly defined) alone was a mistake and various attempts are being made to rebuild forms of interdisciplinarity. However, many of these new broader, encompassing, attempts are, unfortunately, lacking correspondingly broad theoretical frameworks, relying all too often on the orthodox theoretical framework of rational choice individualism to try to explain the wider social totality. In fact, too often this is just another form of the "economic imperialism" that has been widespread in recent decades.en
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dc.publisherBoehlau Verlagen
dc.relation.ispartofPerspektiven durch Retrospektiven: Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Beiträge. Festschrift für Rolf Walter zum 60. Geburtstagen
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dc.titleEvolution Theory and Economic History: A Partnership of Mutual Necessity?en
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.identifier.doi10.7788/boehlau.9783412212094.193en
dc.subject.keywordsHeterodox Economicsen
dc.subject.keywordsHistory and Philosophy of the Social Sciencesen
dc.subject.keywordsHistory of Ideasen
local.contributor.firstnameChristopheren
local.subject.for2008220208 History and Philosophy of the Social Sciencesen
local.subject.for2008220209 History of Ideasen
local.subject.for2008149903 Heterodox Economicsen
local.subject.seo2008970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economicsen
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086682514en
local.profile.schoolAdministrationen
local.profile.emailalloyd@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20140122-094115en
local.publisher.placeWeimar, Germanyen
local.identifier.totalchapters21en
local.format.startpage193en
local.format.endpage210en
local.title.subtitleA Partnership of Mutual Necessity?en
local.contributor.lastnameLloyden
dc.identifier.staffune-id:alloyden
local.booktitle.translatedPerspectives through retrospectives: Economic History Review. Festschrift for Rolf Walter 60th birthdayen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:14489en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleEvolution Theory and Economic Historyen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.search.authorLloyd, Christopheren
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2013en
local.subject.for2020500206 History and philosophy of the social sciencesen
local.subject.for2020500207 History of ideasen
local.subject.for2020389903 Heterodox economicsen
local.subject.seo2020280108 Expanding knowledge in economicsen
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