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The Significance of Modern Empiricism for History and Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Abbott Payson Usher
Abbott Payson Usher
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The relation of theoretical economics to empirical historical analysis has been one of the central problems of economic historians ever since the recognition of economic history as a separate discipline. Recent studies in logic and philosophy, by constructing new frames of meaning for both theory and history, have opened up several avenues for a fresh approach to this and other problems of importance to the historian and the economist.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , November 1949 , pp. 137 - 155
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1949

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