What does an economic historian do?
Economic historian is an academic expert who studies a specific history of economic and business patterns and practices. Economic historians closely cooperate with both traditional historians and pure economists and occupy interdisciplinary positions between the two fields. Usually the work of an economic historian will use theoretical and statistical models, but also attempts to save work in specific historical events and circumstances. Some economic historians strive for a separate and impartial approach to history, while others, including some of the first and most famous champions of capitalism and socialism, have created works from more ideological aspects.
Like cultural studies and other disciplines with clear roots in other fields, economic history occupies a place somewhere between economy and history. The discipline appeared in the interwar years, but its position in many universities remained ambiguous because some SAW schools economic historians asPrimarily historians, some of them treated them as economists, and some saw a unique transient role for them. In some academic systems, there is another division between the work role of an economic historian who studies the development of economic systems and practices over time and the development of a historical economist who uses historical examples and methodology in an effort to test economic theories.
The 1960s have increased new economic history, the academic movement, which used very strict statistical methods to the key moments of history in an effort to understand the basic economic causes and effects. This movement, sometimes known as Cliometrics, literally means measuring Clio, Muse of History, appeared at a time when historians generally focused more attention on economic issues and statistical methodology. Cliometrics tend to draw economic historians outside of historical separationOutline and towards the economic departments, especially after a gradual decline in interest in statistical methodology between the wider community of historians.
The discipline of economic history has historically attracted a combination of technocrats and ideologues. Karl Marx, who considered himself an economic historian, would consider himself an objective observer of history. After all, Marx was the contemporary of Leopold von Ranke, whose thoughts of the central importance of objectivity in history were formed by methods of generations of historians. Milton Friedman, a keen advocate of market capitalism of the 20th century, also worked as an economic historian, and similarly had an ideological agenda. Friedman, usually usually modern economic historians, admitted his intellectual stake in the scholarship he produced.