Historians aim to infer and form the knowledge and wisdom of how people lived in old societies and what contributed to the formation of historic events and phenomena.
This is in contrast to the common belief, historians are not only collecting "facts."

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Historians study "the beliefs and desires, the practices and institutions, of human beings."

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Rampolla, M. L. (2012). A pocket guide to writing in history. Macmillan.

A pocket guide to writing in history

Historians' Goal

Economic historians are scholars who apply economic theories and quantitative methods to the study of historical events. They analyze the history of economies and economic institutions to understand long-term trends, the origins of growth, and the causes of phenomena like the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence.

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