Economics and history : surveys in cliometrics
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Economics and history : surveys in cliometrics
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of economic surveys (volume 24., Issue 5)"--T.p. verso
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Description
Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area.
Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy accessibility for the non-specialist reader
Brings together the very latest research in this highly topical subject from leading scholars
Contributions cover a broad range of areas within this subject
The latest publication in the highly successful Surveys of Recent Research in Economics Book Series
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vi 1 Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count 1
David Greasley and Les Oxley
2 Social Savings 21
Tim Leunig
3 Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of Recent Historical Research 47
Kris Inwood and Evan Roberts
4 Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View 87
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
5 A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 141
Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and Brendan Livingston
6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey 187
Timothy J. Hatton
7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory and Applications 217
David Greasley and Les Oxley
Index 289
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