CLIO AND THE ECONOMIST: MAKING HISTORIANS COUNT
回顾了计量史学(cliometrics)自1960年代以来的发展,说明它如何将经济史与经济学重新连接,并利用新古典经济学、多种理论视角和统计方法研究历史,适合对经济史方法论感兴趣的学者。
Abstract Cliometrics reconnected economic history and economics in the 1960s. The deeper foundations of cliometrics research lie in the longer standing traditions of quantitative history and the contemporaneous growth of the social sciences and computing. Early cliometrics research reinterpreted economic history through the lens of neo‐classical economics. Over the past half century cliometrics has matured and now utilizes a broad array of theoretical perspectives and statistical methods to help understand the past. The papers introduced here illustrate the achievements of several key areas of cliometrics research and show how new theoretical perspectives, innovative data construction and sophisticated econometric methods are the hallmarks of the discipline.