The result of more than thirty five years of the new economic history, or cliometrics, is not only to shed new light on the past as a result of the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to history but to provide social scientists with new insights into and a deeper understanding of the nature of societal and economic change. From Wordnik.com. [Douglass C. North - Banquet Speech] Reference
In other words, the turn to cliometrics -- quantitative observation of historical trends -- is more or less essential to the history of the longue durée. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Second, attitudes toward age may be measured in census data, by an "age heaping" test, which Professor Stone dismissed as merely a "clever exercise in cliometrics.". From Wordnik.com. [Growing Old: An Exchange] Reference
But Cambridge was also home to a group of scholars who together would create the “new” economic history—or “cliometrics,” as it gradually became known in the newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
Both Fogel and North have been credited with founding the discipline of cliometrics, the application of economic theory to history, a subject traditional economists have largely ignored. From Wordnik.com. [The Urge To 'Startle People'] Reference
Meyer wrote on the microeconomics of slave investment, Conrad worked on the demographics, they put the two parts together, made some convincing estimates of just how profitable slavery actually was historians nearly universally assumed it was a money-losing business and in that putting-together created the controversial displine known today as cliometrics. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
But they overlook the portion of that change that began with John Meyer, a Harvard professor who was present at the creation of the Boston consulting firm of Charles River Associates, served as vice chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, helped invent “cliometrics” and ran the Bureau for a decade between Arthur F. Burns and Feldstein. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
Whether cliometrics, hermeneutics, deconstruction, or symbolic interactionism - when they are also good ideas, carry powerful residual value in their originality and authority. From Wordnik.com. [orgtheory.net] Reference
Try reading some Jared Diamond and then playing that game (particularly cliometrics after reading the Foundation series as a kid. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
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