But Steven Levitt and John List, two economists at the University of Chicago, discovered that the data had survived the decades in two archives in Milwaukee and Boston, and decided to subject them to econometric analysis.
The narrative revisits Polanyi's oeuvre in English, German, and Hungarian, includes exhaustive research in five archives, and features interviews with Polanyi's daughter, students, and colleagues, clarifying the contradictory aspects of the thinker's work.
In the past, to duplicate what I found through those databases, I would have had to spend years sifting through volumes of information in one archive after another, getting allergic reactions from old-paper dust.
The difficulty of this method is that the required data are very diverse and are not in one archive.
Always scan ZIP files as these often contain multiple files in one archive.
But we've done very well, and I think we're now among the top two or three archives in the United States.
The remnants of the Bauhaus were then divided between three archives: two in its first homes of Weimar and Dessau, on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain, and a third on the other side in West Berlin.
This is an exciting time for us as we embark on this new partnership and expand the reach of the voices of all the survivors who shared their stories in our two archives". If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact Stephen Naron at [email protected]
"Although I used some documents that I found myself in two Moscow archives, my main sources were numerous archival documents published in Russian in various publications," Birstein said.
The current project examined articles obtained by comparable search strategies in two electronic archives using an exemplar search to illustrate factors that authors should consider when designing their own search strategies.
