cliometrics

The result of more than thirty five years of the new economic history, or cliometrics, is not only to shed new light on the past as a result of the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to history but to provide social scientists with new insights into and a deeper understanding of the nature of societal and economic change.

Douglass C. North - Banquet Speech 1994

Ms. McCloskey enjoyed a stellar career in economic history before her apostasy, being among the earliest pioneers of cliometrics—the quantitative study of economic history.

The New Theories of Moral Sentiments Dalibor Rohac 2012

In other words, the turn to cliometrics -- quantitative observation of historical trends -- is more or less essential to the history of the longue durée.

Longue durée Daniel Little 2009

In other words, the turn to cliometrics -- quantitative observation of historical trends -- is more or less essential to the history of the longue durée.

Archive 2009-05-01 Daniel Little 2009

Both Fogel and North have been credited with founding the discipline of cliometrics, the application of economic theory to history, a subject traditional economists have largely ignored.

The Urge To 'Startle People' 2008

Meyer wrote on the microeconomics of slave investment, Conrad worked on the demographics, they put the two parts together, made some convincing estimates of just how profitable slavery actually was historians nearly universally assumed it was a money-losing business and in that putting-together created the controversial displine known today as cliometrics.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

But Cambridge was also home to a group of scholars who together would create the “new” economic history—or “cliometrics,” as it gradually became known in the newspapers.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

Second, attitudes toward age may be measured in census data, by an "age heaping" test, which Professor Stone dismissed as merely a "clever exercise in cliometrics."

Growing Old: An Exchange Fischer, David Hackett 1977

But they overlook the portion of that change that began with John Meyer, a Harvard professor who was present at the creation of the Boston consulting firm of Charles River Associates, served as vice chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, helped invent “cliometrics” and ran the Bureau for a decade between Arthur F. Burns and Feldstein.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

- whether cliometrics, hermeneutics, deconstruction, or symbolic interactionism - when they are also good ideas, carry powerful residual value in their originality and authority.

orgtheory.net 2009