The Handbook of Historical Economics
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2021
- Editors: Alberto Bisin, Giovanni Federico
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 7 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 2 6 8 - 2
The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand.
- Provides an historical outline of the two cliometric revolutions, highlighting the similarities and the differences between the two
- Surveys the issues and principal results of the "second cliometric revolution"
- Explores innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in data-driven, empirical economics
Economists and economic historians as well as upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in economics who are interested in the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history
2. A survey of the issues and the main results of the second cliometric revolution
3. A discussion of the innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in economics towards a more data-driven, empirical approach
- No. of pages: 1002
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128158746
- eBook ISBN: 9780128162682
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