Introduction

Economic history has emerged in many European countries as a dynamic discipline based on rigorous analytical categories and empirical methods. The demand for education and training in theoretically-driven analysis of the past has been relentlessly growing since the 1980s, and new centers promoting excellence in teaching and research have been established. Economic historians provide now both undergraduate and post-graduate students in economics, business, social and political sciences all over Europe with a long-run perspective of the sources of economic growth, the expansion of international trade, the international movements of capital and labour, or the role of institutions in enhancing (or hindering) economic development. Read more

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