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Economics and the Modern Economic Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2015

Ran Abramitzky
Ran Abramitzky*
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Ran Abramitzky is Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6072. E-mail: [email protected].
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Essays—The Future of Economic History
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 1240 - 1251
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2015 

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Footnotes

A longer version of this essay with more tables, Figures and citations can be found on my website and as NBER working paper. I would like to thank Martha Bailey, Ann Carlos, and Paul Rhode for organizing the session, and Daron Acemoglu, Leah Boustan, Tim Bresnahan, Davide Cantoni, Liran Einav, Matthew Gentzkow, Claudia Goldin, Avner Greif, Phil Hoffman, Pete Klenow, Aprajit Mahajan, Joel Mokyr, Kaivan Munshi, Suresh Naidu, Santiago Pérez, and Gavin Wright for useful discussions. I am grateful to Santiago Pérez for superb research assistance and to Aditya Kanukurthy for help with data collection.

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