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Zusatztext "I . . . found The Poverty of Clio an interesting and stimulating read, recommendable for anyone interested in economic history." ---Erik Bengtsson, Economic Sociology Informationen zum Autor Francesco Boldizzoni is research fellow in economic history at the University of Bari and a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500-1970 . Klappentext "Boldizzoni has written a powerful polemic that combines an impressive survey of a great deal of recent cliometric economic history writing with an impassioned plea for the revival of the European social-science tradition. The theme! simply stated! is the erroneous and irrelevant character of most economic history writing. It is a book that needed to be written."--Harold James! Princeton University "I am struck by the immense and impressive range of "The Poverty of Clio." Few works in historiography can muster the scope and learning of this book! which will make it attractive not just to economic historians but to sociologists and historians of culture more generally."--Frank Trentmann! author of "Free Trade Nation" Zusammenfassung The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around. Boldizzoni questions the appeal of economics over history--which he identifies as a distinctly American attitude--exposing its errors and hidden ideologies, and revealing how it fails to explain economic behavior itself. He shows how the misguided reliance on economic reasoning to interpret history has come at the expense of insights from the humanities and has led to a rejection of valuable past historical research. Developing a better alternative to new institutional economics and the rational choice approach, Boldizzoni builds on the extraordinary accomplishments of twentieth-century European historians and social thinkers to offer fresh ideas for the renewal of the field. Economic history needs to rediscover the true relationship between economy and culture, and promote an authentic alliance with the social sciences, starting with sociology and anthropology. It must resume its dialogue with the humanities, but without shrinking away from theory when constructing its models. The Poverty of Clio demonstrates why history must exert its own creative power on economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Chapter 1: Truth on the Cross Science and Ideology 1 Chapter 2: Economics with a Human Face? 18 Chapter 3: The Fanciful World of Clio 54 Chapter 4: The World We Have Lost Microeconomic History 87 Chapter 5: The World We Have Lost Macroeconomic Perspectives 120 Chapter 6: Building on the Past The Creative Power of History 138 References 173 Index 209 ...
