WHERE IS THERE CONSENSUS AMONG AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORIANS - THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY ON 40 PROPOSITIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: WHAPLES, R
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700040602
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 139-154
• 关键词: cotton textile-industry; UNITED-STATES; antebellum

摘要

This article examines where consensus does and does not exist among American economic historians by analyzing the results of a questionnaire mailed to 178 randomly selected members of the Economic History Association. The questions address many of the important debates in American economic history. The answers show consensus on a number of issues, but substantial disagreement in many areas-including the causes of the Great Depression and the aftermath of emancipation. They also expose some areas of disagreement between historians and economists.