and here we go again in 2007 with a workshop at the EUI in Florence (organized in part by @kevinhorourke.bsky.social) in which Steve Broadberry and Crafts were invited to engage with Oded Galor and assess unified growth theory.

in 1996, it is Paul Romer and Martin Weitzman that were sided against economic historian Nicholas Crafts at the annual meeting of the Association to assess the contributions of new growth theory in a session with a telling title.

but this was not a one-time feud: the tensions were still unresolved when economic historians and growth theorists met at the 1984 meeting of the AEA, for a redux of the Solow-Rostow debate in which Arrow also took part (the proceedings of the session were edited by Parker and Kindleberger).