Cliometrics

Kliometrie, New Economic History ( New German economic history ) or even Historical Economics ( German Historical Economics), is a research perspective of economic history, which attempts being based on economics theory and quantitative methods to gain insights in economic history. The term is a contraction of the word for Clio the Muse of History and metry, the art of measuring. The concept of the New Economic History comes from the fact that the original representative understood in the USA in the 1950s, their research approach as a renewal of economic history who had turned away from the reorientation of mathematical economics and economic theory.

History

The Kliometrie originated in the late fifties in the United States, where she found a rapid spread during the sixties. In Anglo-Saxon it plays today in the economic history of a more significant role. On the European continent, it was only accepted with a delay in the course of the seventies, but today well represented. Kliometrische research makes it possible to construct models with clear causal relationships. By changing individual parameters or the relationships between the parameters, it is also relatively easy in the New Economic History to operate counterfactual historical research and the simulation of various "possible" history courses and compare.

Robert W. Fogel and Douglass North received in 1993 for their kliometrisch oriented work the Nobel Prize in Economics. In Germany this approach has been particularly widespread in the 70s by Richard H. Tilly. Currently, the research groups are working to Jörg Baten, Lars Börner, Carsten Burhop, Davide Cantoni, Georg Fertig, Sibylle Lehmann, Ulrich Pfister, Moritz Schularick, Mark Spoerer, Jochen Streb, Ulrich Woitek and Nikolaus Wolf in this area.

Scientific societies

To increase the popularity of this approach to research, scientific societies were founded:

  • Association Française de Cliométrie
  • Cliometric Society
  • European Historical Economics Society

Journals

  • Explorations in entrepreneurial history, 1948/1949 - 6.1968/1969; continued as: Explorations in Economic History, since 1969/1970, ISSN 0014-4983.
  • European Review of Economic History, 1997, ISSN 1361-4916.
  • Cliometrica. Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, since 2007, ISSN 1863-2505.
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