In the USA today the academic field of economic history is much closer to economics than it is to history in terms of professional behavior, a stylized fact that I call the “integration of economic history into economics.” I document this using two types of evidence—use of econometric language in articles appearing in academic journals of economic history and economics; and publication histories of successive cohorts of Ph.D.s in the first decade since receiving the doctorate. Over time, economic history became more like economics in its use of econometrics and in the likelihood of scholars publishing in economics, as opposed to, say, economic history journals. But the pace of change was slower in economic history than in labor economics, another subfield of economics that underwent profound intellectual change in the 1950s and 1960s, and there was also a structural break evident for post-2000 Ph.D. cohorts. To account for these features of the data, I sketch a simple, overlapping generations model of the academic labor market in which junior scholars have to convince senior scholars of the merits of their work in order to gain tenure. I argue that the early cliometricians—most notably, Robert Fogel and Douglass North—conceived of a scholarly identity for economic history that kept the field distinct from economics proper in various ways, until after 2000 when their influence had waned.

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经济史与经济学的融合

在当今的美国，经济历史的学术领域比专业行为更接近于经济学，而与历史相比则更为接近，这是一个典型的事实，我称之为“将经济历史融入经济学”。我用两种类型的证据来证明这一点：在经济史和经济学学术期刊上发表的文章中使用计量经济学语言；自获得博士学位以来的第一个十年中连续几批博士学位的出版历史。随着时间的流逝，经济史在使用计量经济学方面以及与经济史期刊相对应的学者出版经济学的可能性越来越像经济学。但是变革的步伐在经济史上要比劳动经济学慢，后者是经济学的另一个子领域，在1950年代和1960年代经历了深刻的知识变革，2000年后的博士学位也出现了结构性突破。队列。为了说明数据的这些特征，我绘制了一个简单的，重叠的学术劳动力市场的世代模型，在该模型中，初级学者必须说服高级学者自己的工作才能获得终身任用。我认为，早期的气候学家，最著名的是罗伯特·福格尔（Robert Fogel）和道格拉斯·诺斯（Douglass North），对经济历史有着学术上的认同，使该领域以各种方式与经济学相分离，直到2000年之后，他们的影响力逐渐减弱。