Measuring Success: Clio and the Value of Database Creation

Claude Diebolt and Michael J. Haupert

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: In a recent article Stefano Fenoaltea (2018) bemoaned the loss of respect and focus on the importance of creating databases, or “measurement” as he referred to it. Cliometrics has made and continues to make valuable contributions not just to the field of economic history, but economics in general. In particular, we focus on the contribution of cliometrics to the creation of datasets. We highlight several important cases in both the past and present, of recognized important contributions of new datasets to the economics discipline. We argue that Clio has continually focused on, and valued, the creation of new data sets and the clever and novel ways they have been exploited to further the frontiers of knowledge, and that these efforts are both appreciated and recognized.

Keywords: Cliometrics; Databases; Economic history; Measurement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A12 B41 C81 C82 N00 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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