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Kocka, History and potentials for cooperation InterDisciplin es 1 (2010) DOI Indi-2010-004 ISSN 2191-6721 43 History, the social sciences and potentials for cooperation  With particular attention to economic history *   Jürgen Kocka  In the view of certain experts, the general historicization of the social sciences since the 1960s, reflecting above all experience with developing countries, has here and there reached Western economics, as well […]. [T]he days of pure economics appear to be numbered with the break- through of a socio-economic standpoint that encompasses the historical dimension. The constellation is favourable. The lessons offered by trans- formation processes in the ›Third World‹ point in this direction, as do the revival of scientific neo-Marxism and the outcomes of many a debate in the discipline.  Thus begins the introduction to Hans-Ulrich Wehler’s influential reader on History and Economics from 1973 (Wehler 1973: 11). Even then, this  was much more an expression of hope than a sober assessment of the situation. The hopes pinned on the historicization of economics were consonant with the strong expectations of ever closer bonds between history and the social sciences, connections that had developed and proved their value in various new approaches in international history since the 1930s. Such new developments were promoted at different places, in France in the pages of  Annales , in Britain by Marxist historians * Earlier versions of this paper were presented on 10 April 2008 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne, on 4 December 2008 in the Research Group »Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization in Europe« at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and on 3 March 2010 at the »Von Gremp Workshop in Economic History« at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am grateful for stimulating discussions.

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