Claire E. F. Wright
Claire E. F. Wright (PhD) is an economic and business historian at the University of Technology Sydney. She is interested in knowledge, markets and business strategy, and is working on the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership (ARC DECRA 2022–25). She serves on the executive of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, and tweets @hereorclaire.
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Transformations of an Interdisciplinary Field
Authored by: Claire E. F. Wright
Publication date: June 2022
In a time of pandemics, war and climate change, fostering knowledge that transcends disciplinary boundaries is more important than ever. Economic history is one of the world’s oldest interdisciplinary fields, with its prosperity dependent on connection and relevance to disciplinary behemoths economics and history. Australian Economic History is the first history of an interdisciplinary field in Australia, and the first to set the field’s progress within the structures of…