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REMARKS OF THE GENERAL DISCUSSANT: A DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN ECONOMICS? WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, AND WHY IT MATTERS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2015

Steven G. Medema
Steven G. Medema*
Affiliation:
Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Colorado Denver, USA. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

The history of economics in the US prior to the twentieth century remains a distinctly under-explored subject—a lacuna that the present symposium seeks to fill, if only in part. Building on the articles that appear in the symposium, this essay takes up a small set of thematic issues related to the developments in American economics in the nineteenth century and points to the issues and challenges in writing the history of this important period.

Type
Symposium: American Political Economy From the Age of Jackson to the Civil War
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 163 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2015 

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