Spleen: the failures of the cliometric school

Stefano Fenoaltea ()

No 14, HHB Working Papers Series from The Historical Household Budgets Project

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: cliometrics; economic history; economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 B40 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2018-12-11
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Related works:
Working Paper: Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School (2019)
Working Paper: Spleen: the failures of the cliometric school (2018)
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