Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School

Stefano Fenoaltea ()

No 44, Quaderni di storia economica (Economic History Working Papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper argues that we cliometricians have failed as economists, because we did not drag the profession out of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth; that we have failed as historians, because we do not take measurement seriously, and misapprehend "the data"; and that we failed signally as economic historians, because we backcast "GDP" as if it measured gross domestic product.

Keywords: economics; economic history; cliometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 B40 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03
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