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8. Cambridge and Economic History

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Abstract

Michael Moissey Postan, who was appointed Professor of Economic History at Cambridge in 1938, rejected the notion of the Middle Ages as pre-capitalist, and adopted a Malthusian approach to medieval economic history which stressed the pressure of population on resources. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) similarly applied a Malthusian approach to the balance of population and resources, stressing the role of stocks of energy in removing the barriers of organic flows. This approach has been supplemented by a concern for intellectual history, institutions, and imperialism which has created a distinctive Cambridge approach to economic history.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Post Keynesian Economics in Cambridge

Nächstes Kapitel Theories Came and Went, Good Data Endured: Accounting at Cambridge

Personal knowledge of Chimen Abramsky and Anna Abulafia suggests that Postan was older and that he was a Menshevik.

On the need to study modern history, see Postan (1971: 57) and on his friendship with Gaitskell (ibid.: 169–182).

The summation of Postan’s analysis is in Postan (1966).

For working papers, publications and main findings, see http://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/occupations/.

See http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/research/hex/objective.htm.

For Barry Supple, see also the interview at https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/229662.

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Titel: Cambridge and Economic History
verfasst von: Martin Daunton
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buch: The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-41232-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-41233-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41233-1_8