The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT
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Temin13-11REV.pdf
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Temin13-11REV.pdf
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Author(s)
Temin, Peter
Date Issued
June 5, 2013
Publisher
Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Series/Report no.
Working paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics;13-11
Abstract
This paper recalls the unity of economics and history at MIT before the Second World War, and their divergence thereafter. Economic history at MIT reached its peak in the 1970s with three teachers of the subject to graduates and undergraduates alike. It declined until economic history vanished both from the faculty and the graduate program around 2010. The cost of this decline to current education and scholarship is suggested at the end of the narrative.
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This revision December 9, 2013. Original submission June 5, 2013.
Subjects
Economic History, MIT Economics, Kindleberger, Domar, Costa, Acemoglu
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