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Claude Diebolt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cliometrics and the Evolution of Human Capital
    2020
    Co-Authors: Claude Diebolt, Roger Fouquet, Ralph Hippe
    Abstract:

    Human capital has been seen to be a key factor for current and future economic growth. In a broader sense, it appears that we are moving towards a knowledge economy driven by human capital, technological progress and digitalization. However, although this evolution may be a new trend, similar developments have occurred in history before. In line with this reasoning, the scholarly feld of Cliometrics has received ever more attention during the last years. In consequence, this paper presents the foundations of Cliometrics, and provides insights into the basic conceptual framework and evolution of human capital during the last centuries.

  • Learning outside the factory: a cliometric reappraisal on the impact of technological change on human capital accumulation
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019
    Co-Authors: Claude Diebolt, Charlotte Le Chapelain, Audrey Rose Menard
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    AbstractThe paper provides, a cliometric analysis on the impact of steam engine technology on the rise of adult education in nineteenth-century France. We exploit exogenous regional variations in t...

  • Cliometrics of the Family: Editors’ Introduction
    Cliometrics of the Family, 2019
    Co-Authors: Claude Diebolt, Auke Rijpma, Sarah Carmichael, Selin Dilli, Charlotte Störmer
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    This book contributes new ideas in order to shift the Cliometrics of the Family from where it is to where it ought to be. It is addressed at scholars who want to approach the family topic in a quantitative manner, something which a growing number of economic and social historians have begun doing. It brings together papers from the session “Global Patterns in Family Structures and Their Impact on Development” held at the World Economic History Congress in Kyoto in 2015 and a number of other papers related to the subject.

  • Measuring Success: Clio and the Value of Database Creation
    2019
    Co-Authors: Claude Diebolt, Michael Haupert
    Abstract:

    In a recent article Stefano Fenoaltea (2018) bemoaned the loss of respect and focus on the importance of creating databases, or “measurement” as he referred to it. Cliometrics has made and continues to make valuable contributions not just to the field of economic history, but economics in general. In particular, we focus on the contribution of Cliometrics to the creation of datasets. We highlight several important cases in both the past and present, of recognized important contributions of new datasets to the economics discipline. We argue that Clio has continually focused on, and valued, the creation of new data sets and the clever and novel ways they have been exploited to further the frontiers of knowledge, and that these efforts are both appreciated and recognized.

  • How Cliometrics has Infiltrated Economics – and Helped to Improve the Discipline
    2019
    Co-Authors: Claude Diebolt, Michael Haupert
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    Fenoaltea (2019) argues that cliometricians have failed as economists, historians, and economic historians. His argument is based on what he sees as a failure to appreciate the fine art of data gathering and what he perceives to be the lax attitude towards measurement. He embodies these complaints in the history of the creation of national income statistics, and the unforgiveable sin of economic historians who attempt to take those measurements backward in time. He concludes his polemic with his dream, that “cliometricians can take history and the humanities as seriously as we take economics, and lead us to the promised land.” (2019: 12) We are unsure of exactly what the “promised land” might be, but argue that any recent issue of Cliometrica, and any article in the Handbook of Cliometrics will provide ample evidence that Cliometrics is alive and well, takes both history and economics very seriously, and does so with a careful and critical eye toward context (clio) and measurement (metrics). Herewith we defend the accomplishments and current robust health of Cliometrics.

Guillaume Daudin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Session - Cliometric Approaches to World War I France
    Association française d'histoire économique, 2016
    Co-Authors: Guillaume Daudin
    Abstract:

    Chers collègues, J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue d’une session consacrée aux approches cliométriques de la Grande Guerre, à l’occasion du 131st AHA (American Historical Association) Annual Meeting. AHA Session 149 - Cliometric Approaches to World War I in France When: Friday, January 6, 2017: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Where: Room 502 (Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level) Chair: Antoine PARENT, Sciences Po Lyon, LAET CNRS, CAC-IXXI, Cliometrics And Complexity – Complex Systems Inst..

  • Call for papers: 8th World Congress of Cliometrics
    Association française d'histoire économique, 2016
    Co-Authors: Guillaume Daudin
    Abstract:

    Call for papers: 8th World Congress of Cliometrics We invite you to submit a paper to the 8th World Congress of Cliometrics that will take place in Strasbourg, France, July 4-7, 2017: http://www.cliometrie.org/en/conferences/world-congress-of-Cliometrics The World Congress is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history, with an expected 90-100 papers to be selected for presentation and discussion. Those wishing to present a paper should provi..

  • In Remembrance of Robert Fogel and Douglass North - American Economic Association
    Association française d'histoire économique, 2016
    Co-Authors: Guillaume Daudin
    Abstract:

    Dear colleagues, Please join us for the AEA session "Cliometrics in Historical Perspective: In Remembrance of Robert Fogel and Douglass North". https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2017/preliminary/1323?sessionType%5Bsession%5D=1&organization_name=&search_terms=Cliometrics&day=&time= The 2017 ASSA Registration and Housing is scheduled to open on September 14th. Sincerely yours, Claude Diebolt

  • Sessions de Cliométrie lors du 64ème Congrès de l’AFSE
    Association française d'histoire économique, 2015
    Co-Authors: Guillaume Daudin
    Abstract:

    Sessions de Cliométrie lors du 64ème Congrès de l'AFSE Organisation de trois sessions "Association Française de Cliométrie-Association Française de Science Economique" lors du 64ème Congrès de l'AFSE. Pour plus d'information : http://afse2015.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/24 Lundi 22 juin 2015 : 16:00-17:30 Session 1 : Cliometrics - Industrialization & Growth "Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization": Zorina Khan, Bowdoin Col..

  • Call for Papers - 10th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics:
    Association française d'histoire économique, 2013
    Co-Authors: Guillaume Daudin
    Abstract:

    Call for Papers - 10th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics: "Where are we now in Cliometrics?" 9-10 May 2014 in Strasbourg. The 2014 annual BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics will be hosted by the University of Strasbourg from 9 to 10 May and organised in association with the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, http://www.beta-umr7522.fr), the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS, http://www.usias.fr/en/), the Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC, ..

Diebolt Claude - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Where are we now in Cliometrics?
    DEU, 2012
    Co-Authors: Diebolt Claude
    Abstract:

    "That Cliometrics is an indispensable tool in the study of economic history is no longer a very controversial statement. It is now generally agreed that economic theory, combined with new data as well as historical, statistical and mathematical methods are necessary at the theoretical level, to formulate problems precisely, to draw conclusions from postulates and to gain insight into workings of complicated processes and, at the applied level, to measure variables, to estimates parameters and to organize the elaborate calculations involved in reaching empirical results. This article is an illustration of the author's belief in this principle." (author's abstract

  • Robert Fogel : spiritual son of Simon Kuznets and master in Cliometrics
    DEU, 2011
    Co-Authors: Diebolt Claude
    Abstract:

    "This paper is devoted to Robert Fogel, the spiritual and/or intellectual son of Simon Kuznets. Master in Cliometrics, he is the winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." (author's abstract

Claudia Goldin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Exploring the Present Through the Past
    The World Economy, 2007
    Co-Authors: Claudia Goldin, Brian Snowdon
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    Claudia Goldin is one of the world’s leading economists and economic historians, and has made a series of outstanding and original contributions particularly to the cliometric (or ‘The New Economic History’) literature. In this interview, Professor Goldin discusses with Brian Snowdon (who first provides a background introduction) several important issues relating to her research on economic history and Cliometrics, the economics of slavery, US economic history, corruption in America, the role of human capital and education in US economic development, wage inequality, female labour force participation and the 'Quiet Revolution', the influence of the contraceptive pill, women's surnames, the reversal of the college gender gap, and women in the economics profession.

  • Cliometrics and the Nobel
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995
    Co-Authors: Claudia Goldin
    Abstract:

    In October 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert William Fogel and Douglass Cecil North `for having renewed research in economic history.' The Academy noted that `they were pioneers in the branch of economic history that has been called the þnew economic history,þ or þCliometricsþ.' In this paper I address what this Cliometrics is and how these two Nobel Prize winners furthered the discipline of economics.

Roger L. Ransom - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • War and Cliometrics: Adventures in Economic History
    The Journal of Economic History, 2006
    Co-Authors: Roger L. Ransom
    Abstract:

    The theme of the 2005 annual meetings of the Economic History Association has beenWar and Economic History: Causes, Costs and Consequences. In this essay I will address this theme by briefly examining the ways in which cliometricians have viewed one particular conflict—The American Civil War—over the past four decades. The first part of my essay deals with the attack, which began at the end of the 1950s, mounted by a group of “New Economic Historians” on the existing explanation of the war; the second part deals with my own adventures as I try to make sense of the economic and political factors that produced the conflict we call the Civil War.

  • War and Cliometrics: Adventures in Economic History
    The Journal of Economic History, 2006
    Co-Authors: Roger L. Ransom
    Abstract:

    The theme of the 2005 annual meetings of the Economic History Association has been War and Economic History: Causes, Costs and Consequences. In this essay I will address this theme by briefly examining the ways in which cliometricians have viewed one particular conflict-The American Civil War-over the past four decades. The first part of my essay deals with the attack, which began at the end of the 1950s, mounted by a group of "New Economic Historians" on the existing explanation of the war; the second part deals with my own adventures as I try to make sense of the economic and political factors that produced the conflict we call the Civil War. When I entered the graduate program in economics at the University of Washington in 1959 the dominant paradigm dealing with the causes and consequences of the Civil War had been put forth by Charles and Mary Beard in their 1927 book, The Rise of American Civilization.1 Their ideas were subsequently elaborated and refined by Louis Hacker in his book, The Triumph of American Capitalism, published in 1940.2