Cliometry

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Cliometrics even New Economic History (dt. New economic history ) or Historical Economics (dt. Historical Economics ), is a research perspective of economic history , the quantitative methods tried basing on economics theory to gain economic historical insights.

The term is a combination of the word Clio for the muse of history and metry , the art of measurement.

The term New Economic History comes from the fact that the original representatives in the USA in the 1950s saw their research approach as a renewal of economic history, which had turned away from the mathematical reorientation of economics and economic theory .

history

Cliometry originated in the United States in the late 1950s, where it spread rapidly during the 1960s. In the Anglo-Saxon region it plays a more important role in economic history today. It was not adopted on the European continent until the 1970s, but is now well represented. Cliometric research makes it possible to build models with clear causal relationships. By changing individual parameters or the relationships between the parameters, it is also relatively easy in New Economic History to conduct counterfactual historical research and to play through and compare various “possible” histories.

Robert W. Fogel and Douglass North received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993 for their climometrically oriented work . In Germany, this approach was particularly popular in the 1970s by Richard H. Tilly . The research groups around Jörg Baten , Lars Börner, Carsten Burhop, Davide Cantoni, Georg Ready , Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Ulrich Pfister, Moritz Schularick , Mark Spoerer, Jochen Streb, Ulrich Woitek and Nikolaus Wolf are currently working in this area.

Scientific societies

To increase the popularity of this research approach, scientific societies were established:

  • Association Française de Cliométrie
  • Cliometric Society
  • European Historical Economics Society

Trade journals

literature

  • Claude Diebolt; Michael Hauptert (Ed.): Handbook of Cliometrics. Berlin: Springer VS 2016. ISBN 978-3-642-40405-4 ; Review on hsozkult
  • Jörg Baten : The future of climometric economic history in German-speaking countries, in Günther Schulz et al. (eds.), Social and Economic History. Areas of work - problems - perspectives, 100 years of quarterly social and economic history. Stuttgart: Steiner 2004, pp. 639-655. [The Future of Cliometrics - a Literature and Project Review]
  • Mark Spoerer / Jochen Streb: New German Economic History of the 20th Century. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3486583922 .
  • Donald N. McCloskey : Econometric History. Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 1987, ISBN 0-333-21371-8 .
  • Thilo Sarrazin : Economics and Logic of the Historical Explanation. On the scientific logic of the New Economic History (= series of publications by the Research Institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Vol. 109). Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1974, ISBN 3-87831-178-8 (At the same time: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1974: Logic of the social sciences at the borders of economics and history. ).

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