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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Historian here, and you might be interested in knowing that we don't "write down history." [/quote] Economist here. History has a strong empirical component, and analyzes evidence. My favorite example is showing that Homer's "Odyssey" originated in oral tradition. Historians are experts at documenting what happened, but not at explaining why it happened, because they do not observe counterfactuals. Economics has developed statistical methods that address this. [i]"if railroads did not exist in 1890, then they probably do not exist now, for there is no record of them being invented in the last ninety-two years."[/i] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1816570[/quote]
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