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The Oomph in economic philosophy: a bibliometric analysis of the main trends, from the 1960s to the present

by Altug Yalcintas MPRA paper No 44191 (Feb 2013) In this essay, I quantitatively analyze the significance of scholarship in economic philosophy since the 1960s. In order to do so, I examine, through the number of publications and citations, the evolution of the main trends in economic philosophy over a fifty years period. This paper will [...]

Remaking the Indian Historian’s Craft:The Past, Present and Future of History as an Academic Discipline

by Anirudh Deshpande Economic and Political Weekly, February 16, 2013 Unlike literature, which results from an imaginative plunder of individual and collective memory, professional history is based on primary and secondary sources which verify the historian’s truth. Compared with literature, history’s relationship with memory appears complicated, primarily because of its institutionalised modernisation. This paper underlines [...]

A Future for the Past: The Economic Value of Historic Preservation

by Matthijs Rolsma. Master Thesis, 2011. The University of Florida Scientific literature has described and explained the linkages between economic development and historic preservation extensively. Historic preservation has led to inputs through cultural tourism, downtown revitalization, higher property values and multiplier effects resulting from government spending on historic preservation. Research has mainly focused on historic preservation in [...]

INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE,VOL.47(3),SEPT.2012

CONTENTS THE MANDA PUZZLE IN INDIAN ASTRONOMY  BY ANIL NARAYANAN INDIAN CHOLERA: A MYTH  BY SRABANI SEN THE ERA OF SCIENCE ENTHUSIASTS IN BENGAL (1841-1891): AKSHAYAKUMAR,VIDYASAGAR AND RAJENDRALALA  BY ARUN KUMAR BISWAS THE VIOLIN AND THE GENESIS OF THE BOSE INSTITUTE IN CALCUTTA  BY PROBIR K BONDYOPADTHYAY AND LILY BANERGEE MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL RESEARCHES IN [...]

Eric Hobsbawm, historian, died on October 1st, aged 95

HIS boyhood enthusiasm for the countryside, especially for its birds, never left him. His heart soared at the sight of a red kite or a hen harrier. He mourned how rarely he heard the song of the yellowhammer, “a-little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese”, on his hikes through the hills of mid-Wales to which he had retreated, close to the [...]

History Workshop Journal Vol. 74, No. 1 Autumn 2012

Articles and Essays Reborn John?: The Eighteenth-century Afterlife of John Lilburne by Edward Vallance Queering the History of Marriage: the Social Recognition of a Castrato Husband in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Helen Berry Popular Radicalism, Religious Parody and the Mock Sermon in the 1790s by Peter Denney Enlightenment and the Uses of Woman by Barbara Taylor Ghost-Hunters and Psychical Research [...]

Indian Journal of History of Science,Vol.47(1),March – 2012

CONTENTS Ancient Chinese people’s knowledge of macrofungi during the period from 220ad to 589 AD Lu Di Bilva in Tradition By Dhananjay Vasudeo Dwivedi The Gurmukhi astrolabe of the Maharaja of Patiala By Sreernamula Rajeswara Sarma Role of Scientists of colonial Benghal By Jagdish N Sinha Historical Notes Swami Vivekananda’s thoughts on science and religion [...]

TECHNOLOGY IN HISTORY:AN OVERVIEW

by Jayaprakash Raghaviah CSES Working Paper No.27, January 2012 This paper is an attempt to historicize and contextualize the role of technology in history. Technology has always been the determinant part of every culture and civilization. But in no other period in history, has technology entrenched itself into every aspect of human life as it [...]

A history of the histories of econometrics

by Boumans, Marcel and Du-pont Kieffer,Ariane MPRA Paper No.35744, December 2011 Understanding the history of econometrics as a modern science also asks for understanding of the development of the image of science, which includes the history of philosophy of science and the history of economic methodology. Beside that philosophers of science need to be historically [...]

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