recounts the history of the journal. The recounting has an analytic core that sees the American Economic Association as an … organization supplying goods and services to its members, one of which is the AER. Early in its history the AER was a multi …

What can macroeconomic history offer macroeconomic theorists and macroeconometricians? Macroeconomic history offers … `path dependence': ways in which the cumulative past, including the history of shocks and their effects, change the … structure of the economy. This essay reviews American macroeconomic history to illustrate its potential uses and draw out …

The paper looks at the development of the secular stagnation thesis, in the context of the economic history of the time …

We sketch a new synthesis of American business history to replace (and subsume) that put forward by Alfred D. Chandler …, Jr., most famously in his book The Visible Hand (1977). We see the broader subject as the history of the institutions of … but characteristic of the field, to see history of adoption in teleological rather than evolutionary perspective. We see a …