Download or read book References on Economic History as a Field of Research and Study (Classic Reprint) written by Everett E. Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from References on Economic History as a Field of Research and Study F. H. Knight, an economic theorist, felt that historians would trite history differently if they had a better grasp of 'economic fundamentals' and that the historical repugnance for generalizations and insistence on 'facts' is likely to mean that he conceals his generalizations from himself and his readers. It is hard to see how significant or readable history can be written without organizing principles, and needless to say no'one really attempts to restrict himself to a.mere sequence of separate, random assertions It seems to be a question of using principles consciously and critically or following unconscious literary p. 156-157. Heinrich Mauer said: The economic historian has not been unaware of the proposition of the newer social sciences such as psychology and sociology that he is dealing with a process, a social process, that to describe it as a social system, a set of attitudes, a behavior organization goes far to describe the thing called capitalise. Unfortunately, the new point of view, the social side of economics and it history, has come in through the wrong door, at all events, the instinct hypothesis of human behavior gets us nowhere with our problem of the rise of capitalism. P. 161. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.