The Return of Economic History - New Approaches and Debates

The Return of Economic History - New Approaches and Discussions Book Description Economic history, which was one of the prominent areas of the social sciences agenda during the 1960s and 1970s, when the development paradigm dominated, then moved away from the center of attention for a while. In the 2000s, the influential works of economists such as Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Pomeranz, and Thomas Piketty drew attention again to the broad horizons that could be opened by the perspective that combines historical analysis and economics. The Return of Economic History aims to increase interest in this field, which largely depends on individual efforts in Turkey. The book includes articles analyzing historical material from an economic perspective on topics such as agricultural regimes, labor relations, income distribution, late industrialization in the world and in Turkey, occupational structural transformation in the Turkish economy, property, market and institutions, and Ottoman legal history. A review of economic history education and training, focusing on the cuisine of the field... In the compilation of Ulaş Karakoç and Alp Yücel Kaya, as well as Seven Ağır, Hülya Canbakal, Pınar Ceylan, Boğaç Ergene, Özgür Burçak Gürsoy, M. Erdem Kabadayı, Eyüp Özveren, Özdeniz Pektaş. It includes contributions from Yücel Terzibaşoğlu, Onur Yıldırım, and an in-depth interview with the master teacher of the field, Şevket Pamuk. "Many researches based on historical data have been conducted in a wide variety of fields, from economic crises to international trade history, from inequalities between geographical regions to the law-economy relationship, from labor history to market integration. Today, economic history is rapidly transforming into an academic discipline with a rich and creative research agenda and methodological and theoretical diversity, in dialogue with economics, history, political science and sociology.