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Coping with crisis: labour markets, institutional changes and household economies. An introduction
- Source :
- Continuity and Change, Continuity and Change, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020, 35 (1), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1017/S0268416020000028⟩, Continuity and Change, 2020, 35 (1), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1017/S0268416020000028⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- Today as in the past, most often crises take people by surprise. This fact has recently provoked strong criticism of the ability of an economic theory to predict crises, to understand their course and to establish solutions to mitigate their effects. History can thus serve as a reservoir of facts and experiences, and the use of a broad chronological perspective has been recently highlighted as essential to providing a wider, comparative knowledge of past crises. Recent economic historiography has highlighted the importance of studying financial and commercial crises alongside agrarian and demographic crises, as well as questioning specific aspects of these shocks. Another important dimension stressed by recent historical studies is the importance of recognising that crises in the past occurred against a background in which uncertainty was the norm. In societies that experienced various forms of ordinary uncertainty (linked for example to the ‘dead’ season in food or textile production), crises constitute peaks of exceptional uncertainty.
- Subjects :
- History
Coping (psychology)
050204 development studies
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Textile production
1. No poverty
General Social Sciences
Historiography
Surprise
Agrarian society
8. Economic growth
0502 economics and business
Development economics
Economics
Criticism
050207 economics
[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History
[SHS.GENRE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studies
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02684160 and 1469218X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Continuity and Change, Continuity and Change, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020, 35 (1), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1017/S0268416020000028⟩, Continuity and Change, 2020, 35 (1), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1017/S0268416020000028⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....396fb1d06623a2f9aff8c3ab0027a0a5