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Business History and Economic History*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2011
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The ensuing remarks are addressed to two topics which seem to me important: (a) what conflicts, if any, are there between business history and economic history; and (b) how can research in the two areas be mutually helpful.
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1 The Committee on Research in Economic History hopes to throw new light upon some aspects of this general subject by its studies in the “role of government in American economic development.”.
2 Gras, N. S. B. and Larson, Henrietta M., Casebook in American Business History (New York: F. S. Crofts and Company, 1939), p. 3.Google Scholar
3 “Are You Writing a Business History ?” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, XVIII (October 1944), 77.Google Scholar
4 It would not be fair to Mr. Gras to give the impression that he considers his Business and Capitalism a forthright “business history.” I suggest merely that it does deal with business evolution in a broad manner.
5 Cochran, Thomas C. and Miller, William, The Age of Enterprise (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942), p. 2.Google Scholar
6 Incidentally, this is an area which the Committee on Research in Economic History has selected for special attention.
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