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The Future of Economic History Must Be Interdisciplinary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2015

Naomi Lamoreaux
Naomi Lamoreaux*
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Naomi Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History, Department of Economics, Yale University, Box 208269, New Haven, CT 06520-8269 and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. E-mail: naomi.lamoreaux@yale.edu.
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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. 1251 - 1257
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Footnotes

I am grateful to Martha Bailey, Ann Carlos, and Paul Rhode for arranging this exchange and to Timothy Guinnane, Eric Rutkow, Francesca Trivellato, and many participants in the 2015 annual meeting of the Economic History Association in Nashville, Tennessee, for their helpful comments.

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