TY - JOUR
T1 - The Challenge of Studying Inflation in Precolonial Africa by Klas Rönnbäck
T2 - A Response
AU - Green, Toby
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - Following the article by Klas Rönnbäck, this article responds by stressing some key elements missing from the original article. These include the connection of African economic history to world economic history, the question of periodization and economic change, and the issue of currency devaluation in the period in question. The response concludes by posing several questions of the theoretical assumptions made by economists regarding data, and problematizes the applicability of such models to a distant pre-colonial African past.
AB - Following the article by Klas Rönnbäck, this article responds by stressing some key elements missing from the original article. These include the connection of African economic history to world economic history, the question of periodization and economic change, and the issue of currency devaluation in the period in question. The response concludes by posing several questions of the theoretical assumptions made by economists regarding data, and problematizes the applicability of such models to a distant pre-colonial African past.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050698670&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/hia.2017.13
DO - 10.1017/hia.2017.13
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050698670
SN - 0361-5413
VL - 45
SP - 19
EP - 28
JO - History in Africa: an annual journal of method
JF - History in Africa: an annual journal of method
ER -