Handbook of Cliometrics

Third Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-35582-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 2826 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 5368 g

This handbook is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history. The articles in the handbook authored by the leading scholars in the fields, stress the usefulness of cliometrics for economists, historians and social scientists in general. The handbook offers a comprehensive coverage of topics with each article providing an overview of the contributions of cliometrics to a particular topic. The handbook has set a new standard of quality in the field by offering a world-wide forum of discussion in cliometrics.

This updated and extended third edition of the handbook of cliometrics offers a substantially enlarged collection of articles and thus stresses its unique position as authoritative reference work in this field.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haupert, Michael

Diebolt, Claude

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Ökonometrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view.- History of cliometrics.- Growth theories.- Cliometric approaches to war.- GDP and convergence in modern times.- Cliometrics and the great depression.- Financial Systems.- Cliometric approaches to international trade.- Time series.- The industrial revolution: a cliometric perspective.- The cliometric study of financial panics and crashes.

Über Autor(innen)

Claude Diebolt is CNRS Research Professor of Economics at the University of Strasbourg. He is the Founder and the Editor in Chief of the journal Cliometrica. He served as President of the French Economic Association and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society and is the Founding President of the French Cliometric Association. In 2019, Claude Diebolt received the George Sarton Medal for his research in Cliometrics.



Michael Haupert is Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. He is the Executive Director of the Economic History Association, having previously served as the Executive Director of the Cliometric Society. He is also a member of the Association Française de Cliométrie. His interest in cliometrics began when he was a graduate student at Washington University in the 1980s, studying under Douglass North and John Nye.