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Notes
1 For example, Sandelin and Trautwein (Citation2023) clocks in at only 121 pages. Kishtainy (Citation2018) is slightly longer than Leigh, at 256 pages. Allen’s (Citation2011) global economic history has only 170 pages and they are small pages.
2 Some accounts of the performance of, and challenges facing, economic forecasts can be found in Macfarlane and Hawkins (Citation1983) and Hawkins (Citation2005).
Sandelin, B., and H. Trautwein. 2023. A Short History of Economic Thought. London: Routledge. Kishtainy, N. 2018. A Little History of Economics. New Haven: Yale University Press. Allen, R. 2011. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Macfarlane, I., and J. Hawkins. 1983. “Economic Forecasts and Their Assessment.” Economic Record 59 (4): 321–331. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.1983.tb00822.x. Hawkins, J. 2005. “Economic Forecasting: History and Procedures.” Economic Roundup, Autumn: 1–10. Canberra: Australian Treasury.