Cliometry
The cliometry indicates the international searchs for quantitative history structured by the economic theory and informed by the statistical and econometric methods.
It originates in work of the American New economic History of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman which, the first, implement mathematical models and statistical contrefactuels for the historical research. This method is for the first time applied for a quantitative study of the American slave system. In 1974 in the work Time one the Cross the authors show that the living conditions of the American black slaves who lived in the South, were better than those of the workmen in industries of the north of the United States. This theory, extremely discussed, is based on a detailed analysis of the registers and recordings held in the plantations.
The attribution of the “Nobel Prize” of economy to Douglass North and Robert Fogel in 1993, " to have renewed research in economic history by the application of the economic theory and the quantitative methods to the economic changes and institutionnels" , the advent of this discipline devoted. The economic history, once modernized by the systematic use of the economic theory and the econometric methods, becomes a branch of the economic scene, with equal parity with other fields.
In 2006, thanks to the support of Cliometric Society American, the French Association of Cliométrie and the Springer Editions, the theoretical and methodological objectives initial are enracinés with the creation of a new international review of cliometry: Cliometrica - Newspaper off Historical Economics and Econometric History . Cliometrica
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