Economic history in motion: between legacies and renewals.

Summary Today, economic history in France no longer enjoys the prestige it did in the days of Braudel and Labrousse, but far from being the refuge of a handful of nostalgics, it continues to renew itself. The result of an initiative by the CNRS, this book examines its current situation and its prospects for development: the weight of legacies, the crisis of paradigms, the relationship with other sectors of history and neighboring disciplines, ongoing projects, and emerging themes are studied by the best specialists. In addition, by going beyond France, it introduces works that are renewing economic history at the international level and that represent challenges for French historians. By doing justice to reductive stereotypes, it shows that economic history helps us to think about complexity and, by illuminating the present through the past, contributes to making the problems of our time intelligible - from financial crises to the rise of China, from the end of the countryside to the growth of inequality.