What is the Value of Economic History?

When we ask historians which genre of history they like least, the most common answer is ‘economic’. Is the field unjustly maligned?

The Money Changers, Marinus van Reymerswaele (follower of), c. 1548. Wiki Commons.

Economics is one of the reasons for the lacklustre reputation of economic history

Rory Naismith, Lecturer in the History of England before the Norman Conquest, University of Cambridge

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