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cliometrics

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cliometrics

Application of economic theory and statistical analysis to the study of history, developed by Robert W. Fogel (b. 1926) and Douglass C. North (b. 1920), who were awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993 for their work. In Time on the Cross (1974), Fogel used statistical analysis to examine the relationship between the politics of American slavery and its profitability. North studied the link between a market economy and legal and social institutions such as property rights in such works as Structure and Change in Economic History (1981). See also econometrics.



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Different fashions became more influential for a short or sometimes longer period, for instance cliometrics and anthropological history.
Moscow, "Charity and the Bequest Motive: Evidence from Seventeenth Century Wills," Paper given at the 36th Annual Cliometrics Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 17-19, 1996.
Postmodernism, in Evans' view sallied forth with great expectations of redefining history, but is simply another approach - like cliometrics, social history and oral history - which confronted the world of historical scholarship, only to became recognized specialisms that have added their mite to the increasing diversity and fragmentation of the discipline.
 
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