Economics and History
Surveys in Cliometrics
Published on 13. October 2011
296 pages
978-1-4443-4670-1 (ISBN)
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Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveysfrom some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributionsare all written at an accessible level for the non-specialistreader and consider a broad range of issues from this highlytopical area.
* Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easyaccessibility for the non-specialist reader
* Brings together the very latest research in this highlytopical subject from leading scholars
* Contributions cover a broad range of areas within thissubject
* The latest publication in the highly successful Surveysof Recent Research in Economics Book Series
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David Greasley is Professor of Economic History in theSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology at EdinburghUniversity. His research interests include the construction ofnational income accounts in historical perspective, comparativeeconomic development, the Great Depression in the USA, Britishindustrialization since 1700, and the economic history of NewZealand.
Les Oxley is Professor in Economics at the University ofCanterbury, and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University ofTechnology, Australia. His research interests includemodelling and testing theories of economic growth, financialeconometrics, intellectual property, energy economics andcliometrics. He is a founding editor of Blackwell'sJournal of Economic Surveys and sits on the editorial boardsof several international journals.
Content
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 ofRecent 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 ofIncome Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Halfof the Twentieth Century 141
Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and BrendanLivingston
6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey 187
Timothy J. Hatton
7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory andApplications 217
David Greasley and Les Oxley
Index 289
