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THE study of American economic history has been revolutionised in the past twenty years. Starting from the work of Kuznets [1952], far more data about the American economy in the nineteenth century have been collected than was believed possible only a few years ago. And starting essentially from the work of Conrad and Meyer [1958], an increasing number of explicitly formulated hypotheses have been tested using these data. The distinguishing feature of the so-called New Economic History is just this juxtaposition of explicitly formulated hypotheses and historical data.
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Temin, P. (1975). Introduction. In: Causal Factors in American Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century. Studies in Economic and Social History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02333-2_1
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