Scope and focus of economic history today The past three decades have witnessed the widespread closure of separate economic history departments and programmes in the UK and the integration of the discipline into either history or economics departments. Only the London School of Economics (LSE) retains a separate economic history department and stand-alone undergraduate and graduate programme in economic history. Cambridge, Glasgow, LSE, Oxford, Queen's, and Warwick together train the vast majority of economic historians coming through the British higher education system today, but do so as part of economics or history degrees. Meanwhile, there have never been specialist economic history graduate programs at universities anywhere in the US. However, economic history remains a special field component of leading economics PhD programs, including University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago and Yale University.
Scope and focus of economic history today The past three decades have witnessed the widespread closure of separate economic history departments and programmes in the UK and the integration of the discipline into either history or economics departments Only the London School of Economics (LSE) retains a separate economic history department and stand-alone undergraduate and graduate programme in economic history Cambridge Glasgow LSE Oxford Queen's and Warwick together train the vast majority of economic historians coming through the British higher education system today but do so as part of economics or history degrees Meanwhile there have never been specialist economic history graduate programs at universities anywhere in the US However economic history remains a special field component of leading economics PhD programs including University of California Berkeley Harvard University Northwestern University Princeton University the University of Chicago and Yale University