scholarly journals A Word from the Program Committee

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Organizational Forms

Program committees, like the parents of adolescents, must at last stand aside, overcome by a sense of powerless responsibility, as their creation begins to speak, act and sin for itself.The program for the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Economic History Association, held August 28–30, 1969, at Rrandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, was generated under the title: The Organizational Forms of Economic Life and Their Evolution. The first two sessions bore the subtitle: Precapitalist Forms, and the second two sessions, the subtitle: Capitalism Revisited.

Karl Polanyi's Concept of Non-Market Trade

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Rotstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Near East ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Evolutionary Context

Karl Polanyi's studies in economic history were concerned with an unusually wide range of economies and societies. Aristotle's Greece, the ancient Near East and Hammurabi's Babylonia, pre-colonial West Africa, and the laissez-faire economy of the nineteenth century were among the areas which he explored. The main focus of his work might well be summed up by the title of the present conference, “The Organizational Forms of Economic Life and Their Evolution,” and equally well by the subtitle, “Non-Capitalistic Organization.” To talk of organizational forms (in the plural) and of non-capitalistic organization is to focus attention on different kinds of economic institutions and on ways of distinguishing among them. To raise this question in an evolutionary context is to suggest a departure from a notion of unilineal development that would tend to see earlier economies as miniature replicas or potential versions of our own market economy.

Introduction

1978 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. T. Hughes ◽  
Joel Mokyr
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Foreseeable Future

The Program Committee for the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Economic History Association was formed in late November 1976, ten months before the convention. The Committee selected the participants whose papers are published in this issue after a comprehensive consultation procedure with a large and wide-ranging sample of members of the Association. The basic guidelines followed by the Program Committee may be briefly stated. First, it was felt that the session topics should pertain to past achievements in the field, as well as reflect issues relevant to the 1970s. Hence, it was decided to include a “summing up session,” in which the importance and achievements of three influential schools in economic history could be evaluated. The three other sessions, as well as the majority of workshops, dealt with issues which were felt to be of considerable interest to scholars at present and in the foreseeable future.

Current Directions in Economic History

1972 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert William Fogel
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Or Methodology ◽  
Topic Time

The Program Committee prepared for the thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in a somewhat unorthodox way. In recent years it has been the custom first to choose a central theme for the conference, and then to solicit only those papers which amplify the theme. This year the program committee decided to forego the attempt to produce a unified set of essays. Instead we wrote to approximately 250 members of the Association and other scholars in the United States and abroad, inviting suggestions for papers without preconditions as to topic, time period, or methodology. Over 150 papers were proposed, from which the committee chose 15. All but one of these are published here. Herbert Gutman's, “Marriage Licenses and Registers Among Freed Men and Women, 1865–1866: New Light on the Family and Household Conditions of Slaves and Free Blacks,” will be published at a later date.

Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
John P. McKay ◽  
Paul J. Uselding
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Entire Field ◽  
General Theme ◽  
Basic Goal ◽  
President Elect ◽  
General Appeal

The Program Committee for the thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association began its work in early 1975, after several months of consultation with David Landes, President-elect of the Association. The basic goal of the Committee was two-fold. First, we selected a general theme—“Historical Dimensions of Social and Political Economy”—which would reassert the fundamental and integral importance of society and politics within economic history. It was, and is, our considered judgment that economic history runs a grave risk of losing general appeal and significance if it becomes a latter-day scholasticism focusing almost exclusively on narrowly defined “economic” problems. Second, we wanted to attract to our meeting and Association scholars with varied interests and methodologies within the entire field of economic history broadly conceived.

A (New) Economic History of the American Revolution?

2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Emma Rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure

The article suggests that The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution can be the point of departure for a new economic history that combines the history of economic thought, economic-cultural history, especially of long-distance connections, and the history of ordinary exchanges in economic life.

Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural Development among a Contemporary Peasantry

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce F. Riegelhaupt ◽  
Shepard Forman
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Forms Of Life

It is indeed a pleasure to be invited to address economists and economic historians regarding the dynamics of peasant economic integration into a national economic system. The particular subject of these meetings, “The Organizational Forms of Economic Life and their Evolution,” is an appropriate one for us since, as anthropologists, we are generally interested in the “Evolution of the Organizational Forms of Life.” Today we will examine the organizational form of peasant economic life in Brazil in an effort to develop a fuller understanding of the socio-economic transactions which take place within this traditional—better, transitional—agrarian society.

Some problems in interpreting Anglo-Saxon coinage

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 173-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dividing Line

This discussion of Anglo-Saxon coinage attempts to look beyond the detail of numismatic classification in order to consider the relationship between the underlying variations and the economic life of the times. Those parts of it which deal with the classification of the coinage and analyse the observed metrology are intended to be a critical summary of the numismatic research carried out in the past thirty years. Other parts, in which I seek to relate the metrology to such documentary evidence as is known to me – and thus trespass across the vague dividing line between numismatics, of which I have some knowledge, and economic history, of which I have little – are aimed at stimulating awareness and discussion of the problems involved. Finally, a section is devoted to numismatic methods because it is important that their use and limitations be generally understood.

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