Francesco Boldizzoni
Francesco Boldizzoni | |
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| Born | 17 July 1979 |
| Nationality | Italian |
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Francesco Boldizzoni (born in 1979) is an Italian academic and historian. He is a research professor of economic history at the University of Turin and a member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Boldizzoni is primarily a historian of capitalism. He has developed an intellectual framework that emphasizes the relevance of the history of ideas and concepts to the understanding of the modern economy. He has advocated an anti-positivist approach to social science history, which draws on historicism, post-structuralism, cultural interpretation, and critical theory. He is currently best known for his critique of neoliberal economic history, The Poverty of Clio.[1][2][3]
Publications
- (2008) Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500-1970, New York: Macmillan.
- (2011) The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
References
- ^ Randall E. Parker and Robert Whaples (2013), Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History, London: Routledge, p. 6.
- ^ William Sewell (2012), "What's Wrong with Economic History?", History and Theory, 51, 466-76
- ^ Christopher Lloyd (2013), "Beyond Orthodoxy in Economic History: Has Boldizzoni Resurrected Synthetic-Structural History?", Economic History Research, 9 (2), 66-70
