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What Anton Howes thinks about peer review

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Historian of innovation, writing the newsletter Age of Invention on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and on how inventions actually came about.

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2 dated positions, 2023 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Anton Howes has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingEconomics journals have made large datasets and heavy statistics the price of making any causal claim at all, which has squeezed qualitative economic history out of the field.

    Their wordsOver the past few decades, journal editors and peer-reviewers have increasingly insisted that papers must present large datasets that have been treated using complex statistical methods in order to make even the mildest claims about what caused what.

    ↗Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobelageofinvention.xyz

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  3. Our readingHistory has a reproducibility problem worse than science’s replication crisis, because hardly anyone ever goes back to the sources to check what a historian claimed they say.

    metascience

    Their wordsBut I’ve become increasingly worried that science’s replication crises might pale in comparison to what happens all the time in history, which is not just a replication crisis but a reproducibility crisis.

    ↗Age of Invention: Does History have a Replication Crisis?ageofinvention.xyz 1st of 4 in this piece