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The Handbook of Historical Economics

Book2021

Edited by:

Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico

The Handbook of Historical Economics

Book2021

 

Cover for The Handbook of Historical Economics

Edited by:

Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico

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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 of ... read full description

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    Pages 945-963

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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 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.

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 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.

Key Features

  • 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
  • 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

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ISBN

978-0-12-815874-6

Language

English

Published

2021

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Academic Press

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Editors

Alberto Bisin

Giovanni Federico