Cliometrics: Past, Present, and Future

Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert

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

Abstract: Cliometrics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to the study of economic history. The methodology rose to favor in economics departments in the 1960s. It grew to dominate the discipline over the next two decades, culminating in the awarding of the 1993 Nobel Prize in economics to two of its pioneers, Robert Fogel and Douglass North. Cliometrics has always had its share of critics, and some have blamed it for the diminished role that economic history had in economics programs in the 21st century.

Keywords: Cliometrics; economic history; new economic history; multidisciplinary; methodology; quantitative. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 N00 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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