scholarly journals Big Questions and Big Data: A Reply from the Collaboratory

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Karin Hofmeester ◽  
Christine Moll-Murata
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
History Data ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Working Together ◽  
History Of

AbstractIn our reply to Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk’s “Big Questions and Big Data: The Role of Labour and Labour Relations in Recent Global Economic History”, we focus on her observations on the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations. We endorse many of her suggestions to connect global labour and economic history and to regard labour relations not only as a dependent variable. In fact, as the examples from various Collab workshops and publications show, some of these ideas are already being put into practice. These examples also show that if we seriously want to combine global labour and economic history data and join the debate on the growth (or decrease) in social inequality, workers’ individual and collective agency must be taken on board. Finally, we argue that global labour and economic historians can benefit most from each other’s disciplines by truly working together in collaborative projects, developing new theories, perhaps less grand than those with which economic historians attract so much attention, but more profound.

scholarly journals Big Questions and Big Data: The Role of Labour and Labour Relations in Recent Global Economic History

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-121
Author(s):  
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Wage Labour ◽  
Narrow Focus

AbstractThis article argues that global labour history (GLH) and global economic history have much to offer each other. GLH would do well to raise sweeping questions – for instance about the origins of global inequality – engage more with theory, and increasingly use quantitative methods. Instead of seeing labour and labour relations as historical phenomena to be explained, they can serve as importantexplanatory variablesin historical analyses of economic development and divergence. In turn, economic historians have much to gain from the recent insights of global labour historians. GLH offers a more inclusive and variable usage of the concept of labour, abandoning, as it does, the often narrow focus on male wage labour in the analyses of many economic historians. Moreover, GLH helps to overcome thinking in binary categories, such as “free” and “unfree” labour. Ultimately, both fields will benefit from engaging in joint debates and theories, and from collaboration in collecting and analysing “big data”.

scholarly journals Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Lucassen
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving Europeans, published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in migration history into the general social and economic history of western Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new studies have proved her point and refined her model.

scholarly journals Towards Big Data: Digitising Economic and Business History

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Jari Eloranta ◽  
Pasi Nevalainen ◽  
Jari Ojala
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Business History ◽  
General State ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Digital History ◽  
History Data ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
History Of

This chapter describes the experiences in computational and digital history of economic and business historians who for decades have been forerunners in digital history data gathering and computational analysis. It attempts to discuss the major developments within this area internationally and, in some specific cases, in Finland in the fields of digital economic and business history. It concentrates on a number of research projects that the authors have previously been involved in, as well as research outcomes by other economic and business historians within Finland and elsewhere. It is not claimed that the projects discussed are unique or ahead of their time in the field of economic and business history—on the contrary they are representing a more general state of the art within the field and used as illustrative cases illuminating the possibilities and challenges facing historians in the digital era.

More Lessons to Learn: Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology and Alternative Archives of Social Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
Andreas Langenohl
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Alternative Archives

Abstract Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology has been written with the intention to offer lessons from the historical trajectory of economic redistribution in societies the world over. Thereby, the book suggests learning from the political-economic history of ‘social-democratic’ policies and societal arrangements. While the data presented speak to the plausibility of looking at social democracy, as understood by Piketty, as an archive for learning about the effects of redistribution mechanisms, I argue that the book, or future interventions might profit from integrating alternative archives. On the one hand, its current line of argumentation tends to underestimate the significance of power relations in the international political economy that continued after formal decolonization, and thus form the flip side of social democracy’s success in Europe and North America. On the other hand, the role of the polity might be imagined in a different and more empowering way, not just-as in Piketty-as an elite-liberal democratic governance institution; for instance, it would be interesting to explore the archive of the French solidaristes movement more deeply than Piketty does, as well as much more recent interventions in economic anthropology that deal with ‘economic citizenship’ in the Global South.

Valvular heart disease: state of the art and treatment perspectives

2017 ◽  
pp. 827-836
Author(s):  
Alain Cribier ◽  
Helene Eltchaninoff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Therapeutic Option ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Team Working ◽  
Working Together ◽  
History Of ◽  
Surgical Options ◽  
Surgical Valve Replacement

Decision-making for the management of valvular disease (VHD) is rapidly evolving with advances in surgical and interventional techniques. The main causes of VHD has moved from rheumatic to degenerative, more particularly in industrial countries. In this chapter will be briefly discuss the aetiologies, presentation, and natural history of VHD in adults. The medical and surgical options available to date and the threshold for intervention will be then described. The role of a multidisciplinary Heart Valve Team working together with a geriatrician has become crucial to determine the optimal therapeutic option for VHD in older adults. Surgical valve replacement has been for decades the only possible option for the three leading VHDs in developed countries: aortic stenosis (AS), aortic regurgitation (AR) and mitral regurgitation (MR). Mitral stenosis (MS) has almost disappeared in Western countries while its prevalence remains high in the developing world.

Policy Entrepreneurs and FDI Attraction: Canada’s Auto Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 684-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREIG MORDUE
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Assembly Operations ◽  
Fdi Attraction

New perspective is provided on a critical period in the development of the Canadian automotive industry. In the 1980s, five foreign manufacturers built new vehicle assembly operations in Canada, effectively transforming that country’s automotive industry. Drawing from a combination of interviews with key actors and a review of archives, this case study makes several contributions. First, gaps are closed in the economic history of one of Canada’s most important industries. Second, the case demonstrates the capacity of using historical perspective to extend an existing theory to a new area of inquiry. In this case, Multiple Streams Theory is employed to explain the process of inward FDI attraction. This includes a description of the role of policy entrepreneurs and their capacity to create and exploit opportunities. Third, the case demonstrates the continuing relevance of integrating historical perspective to contemporary issues in business, management, and public policy.

scholarly journals Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orley Ashenfelter
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Economic History ◽  
General View ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Or History

In this essay, I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period 1850–1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too—with more than enough warts and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner's remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might be interested in their history at all. (JEL B10, B20, B30, N00)

scholarly journals Dove va la storia economica? Metodi e prospettive. Secc. XIII-XVIII – Where is Economic History Going? Methods and Prospects from the 13th to the 18th Centuries

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic History ◽  
General Context ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Current State ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time

The book proposes to take stock of the situation of the studies of economic history of the pre-industrial age, in an attempt to grasp what – in the current state of European research – is the cultural scope and role of the discipline among the many specialisations of history and economic science. It analyses the different approaches that have characterised the various European historiography schools over time, as well as the evolution and prospects of directions of research; it reflects on the analysis of the sources, the methods that are at the basis of their use, and the interpretative questions that they pose for the academic. Finally it proposes the inclusion of economic history within the more general context of research, through an interdisciplinary comparison between the method proper to this discipline and that of other economic and social sciences.

Academician Sitaryan. Create the future for today

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-188
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Yakutin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reform Processes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Free Economic Society — VEO of Russia, is preparing a series of articles devoted to members of the academy who actively collaborated with VEO. Academician Sitaryan S.A. entered the economic history of Russia both as a prominent theoretical scientist, and as a talented organizer of economic reform processes, and as an active participant in the life of VEO. The article analyzes the scientific views of Academician S. Sitaryan on the problems of reforming the Soviet economy, starting with the «kosygin reform» and up to the reform of the late 80s of the twentieth century. The role of academician S. Sitaryan is revealed. in approving value categories in the practice of managing the national economy. The contribution of S. Sitaryan to the theory of analysis of macro- and microeconomic processes is shown; organization and assessment of the effectiveness of foreign economic relations; building rational and optimal budgetary relations between the center and the regions.

Institutions for writing the economic history of the global

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Luiten Van Zanden
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
National Income ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Global History ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research

Global history needs to take advantage of new research methodologies of teamwork and collaboration. Historians and economic historians can work together to provide historical data sets covering the world. New evidence gathering and analysis through teams of historians pooling expertise can create new public goods for global history. Examples are provided by current collaborative projects on national income, prices, real wages, and labour relations. Historians working in such teams must make agreements over who owns the data, the division of labour and who leads the projects and publications.

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