Finance is History!

Harold James

doi:10.1080/13507486.2012.741114

Finance is History!

Harold James

History

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Abstract

A new sensitivity to the significance of historical experience has developed since the 2007 financial crisis. There are three possible ways of drawing on the past: as a source of advice on policies, of patterns of past evolution, of multiple possibilities. The best way of thinking about history is as a way of testing conventional hypotheses-particularly when those hypotheses are being used to create market opportunities (by making for false confidence; but also by engendering exaggerated despair).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1021-1026
Number of pages	6
Journal	European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire
Volume	19
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2012.741114
State	Published - Dec 1 2012

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History

Keywords

depression
financial crisis
market instability

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