Who Writes African Economic History?

Fourie, Johan

doi:10.1080/20780389.2019.1639500

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“…• The impact of economic history on scientific production For example, Abramitzky (2015), Baten and Muschallik (2012), Cioni et al (2020aCioni et al ( , 2020bCioni et al ( , 2021, Fernández-de-Pinedo and Muñoz (2019), Fourie (2019), and Jones et al (2012) study the relationship between economic history and economics by analyzing the output of specific journals or by sampling leading EFJs and EBHJs. These authors' strategies are diverse.…”

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Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis

2022

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This article analyses the integration of economic history into economics using a unique dataset containing 11,143 articles written by 919 economic historians and published between 1980 and 2019 in leading journals; we also analyzed the authors’ biographical information. Using a probit regression, we find that since 1980, economic historians have increased their likelihood of publishing in Economics or Finance Journals (EFJs) by 12 points. This integration is more marked in North America than in Europe because North American economic historians are more likely to be trained in the discipline of economics. In contrast, a significant share of scholars in Europe are trained in the discipline of economic history. Network visualizations confirm these regional differences: citations to EFJs are much more central in North American scholars’ work. Our findings support Robert Margo’s claim that economic history is currently integrated into economics more often in publications in North America than in Europe.

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Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis

2022

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“…The digitization and transcription of large historical data setslike probate inventories (see above), attestation forms, death notices, tax censuses, and even satellite imagerycombined with innovative econometric techniques now allow for causal hypothesis testing (Fourie and Obikili 2019). Although this 'renaissance' of African economic history has not yet attracted the desired participation of African scholars (Fourie 2019), it is an important step in the right direction (Austin and Broadberry 2014;Hopkins 2019).…”

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Macroeconomic history in South Africa: The South African Reserve Bank centennial special issue

Fourie

2021

Economic History of Developing Regions

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When Simon Groot died in 1688 on his Stellenbosch farmleaving behind his wife, Gertrud Baumann, and their two daughters, aged 6 and 18 monthshis probate inventory recorded the collection of household goods and farm implements that the family had owned at the time: some tin and iron equipment, a gun, and a wagon, to name but a few items. 1 The inventory also lists the summer harvest of ten mudden rye and the livestock on the farm: one pig, two horses, twelve trek oxen, ten cattle and fifty-five sheep. Ownership of one enslaved, unnamed boy is recordedbut what is most remarkable about Groot's inventory is the family's credit network: despite their relatively humble portfolio of assets, they owed money to at least fifteen peopleincluding a sizeable sum to the Dutch Reformed Church. In contrast to an earlier literature which suggested a mostly subsistence economy, research using these probate inventories and auction rolls has revealed the dense financial network of the eighteenth-century Cape Colonya financial network underpinned, it must be emphasized, by the institution of slavery (Fourie and Swanepoel 2018). This facta thriving capitalist system blemished by exclusion and exploitationwould become characteristic of South Africa's economic development into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The study of capitalismthe history of markets, entrepreneurship, trade, and innovation but also labour coercion, discrimination, and inequalityis back in vogue. 2 There are at least two reasons for this. First, events in the present have forced social scientists to learn from the past. Macroeconomists, enamoured with rational expectations models, had predicted the end of the business cyclethat was, until the Great Recession of 2007 dashed those predictions. As Eichengreen (2012) reminds us, it is during such financial crises that policymakers turn to history for guidance. Furthermore, the rise of populist movements across the globe during the 2010s has warranted comparisons with earlier eras that also witnessed severe levels of societal inequality (Piketty and Zucman 2014). Forms of exclusion along race and gender identities persistexclusions that have deep historic roots (Wanamaker 2017). And research on the Spanish flu of 1918 is in high demand in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic (Arthi and Parman 2021).A second reason for the rising interest in the study of economic history is the availability of new methods and sources (Mitchener 2015). This is especially applicable to the developing world, where conventional historical sources are often inaccessible or

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“…Dans certains de ceux‐ci, la manne liée à l'exploitation des ressources naturelles, tout en encourageant la corruption et la mauvaise gouvernance, affaiblit l'Etat. Dans d'autres, en revanche, ce sont des facteurs historiques liés à l'importance du poids de l'héritage colonial, qui semble avoir joué un rôle primordial (Fourie, 2019).…”

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“…Il est, dès alors apparu depuis au moins les travaux des pionniers de North (1991) de manière assez consensuelle que les bonnes institutions sont généralement corrélées positivement aux meilleures performances économiques (Acemoglu et Robinson, 2006; Atangana Ondoa, 2013; Barro, 1999; Clague et al, 1996; Edo et al, 2019; Fourie, 2019; Omgba, 2014; Omgba, 2015, Ongo Nkoa et Song, 2017; Tchamyou et al, 2019). Mais, le sens de la corrélation est toutefois très discuté.…”

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La diffusion des TIC ameliore‐t‐elle qualitativement les institutions politiques en Afrique?

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Mbongo

2020

African Development Review

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This paper empirically analyses the impact of the diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) on the quality of institutions simultaneously captured by democracy and corruption in a few African countries. To do so, we specify a panel Tobit model in which democracy is measured by the Institutional Quality Index proposed by the ICRG, while corruption is approximated by the Corruption Control Index. Our model is estimated on a sample of 40 African countries over the period 1995-2018. Overall, the main results show that ICT diffusion significantly improves the quality of democracy and reduces the propensity to corruption in the sample countries. We suggest strengthening the rule of law to increase the quality of democracy, a source of positive externalities on corruption. Résumé Ce papier analyse empiriquement l'impact de la diffusion des TIC (Technologie de l'Information et de la Communication), sur la qualité des institutions captées simultanément par la démocratie et la corruption dans quelques pays africains. Pour y parvenir, nous spécifions un modèle Tobit en panel dans lequel la démocratie est mesurée par l'indice de qualité institutionnelle proposée par l'ICRG, alors que la corruption est approximée par celui du contrôle de la corruption. Notre modèle est estimé sur un échantillon de 40 pays africains sur la période 1995-2018. Les principaux résultats montrent globalement que la diffusion des TIC améliore significativement la qualité de la démocratie, et réduit la propension à la corruption dans les pays de l'échantillon. Nous suggérons le renforcement de l'état de droit pour accroitre la qualité de la démocratie, source d'externalités positives sur la corruption. How to cite this article: Avom D, Eyike Mbongo LdeB. La diffusion des TIC ameliore-t-elle qualitativement les institutions politiques en Afrique?

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Who Writes African Economic History?

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis

Recent trends in publications of economic historians in Europe and North America (1980–2019): an empirical analysis

Macroeconomic history in South Africa: The South African Reserve Bank centennial special issue

La diffusion des TIC ameliore‐t‐elle qualitativement les institutions politiques en Afrique?

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