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'Economic history' is the study of how economic phenomena evolved in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using historical methods and statistical methods, sometimes to test economic theories. The topic includes business history and overlaps with areas of social history such as demographic history and labor history. Quantitative economic history is also referred to as Cliometrics.

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Cliometrics

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Economic History Services (EHS)

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Other EHS

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Description

Practitioners and advocates of the first approach, which was for a long time dominant in the United Kingdom, generally regarded economic history as being either an independent discipline or a subfield of history. Practitioners of the second approach, which is more influential in the United States and rapidly extending worldwide, usually regard economic history as a subfield of economics. The term cliometrics (a reference to Clio, the Muse of history) is used to describe the application of econometric and statistical techniques to the study of economic history. In France, economic theory and demographics was early integrated into mainstream historiography due to the large impact of the ''Annales School'' of history from the 1920s and onwards.
Economic history has been a contentious issue in the United Kingdom for many years. The London School of Economics and Oxbridge had numerous duels over the separation of Economics and Economic theory. Oxbridge believed that pure economics involved a component of economic history and that the two were irreversibly entangled. The relative newcomer, the London School of Economics (LSE), fought for a different case: they believed that Economic history warranted its own course, program, study and research apart from pure or standard economics. Eventually, over the long run, the LSE seems to have had it right: many schools in the UK as well as the US have now developed programs in economics history which have their roots in the LSE model of separating economics and economic history. While the two academic subject areas are significantly unique, of course, economics and history - together - are the back bone of the entire discipline. Often, economic historians such as Nicholas Crafts (of LSE fame) Bob Fogel and Douglass North (The last two are Nobel laureates in economics) are called upon to advise for some of the world foremost economic institutions: WEF, WTO, OECD and others.

Cliometrics

''Cliometrics'' refers to the systematic use of economic theory and econometrics techniques to study ''economic history''. The term was originally coined by Jonathan R.T. Hughes and Stanley Reiter in 1960 and refers to Clio, who was the muse of history and heroic poetry in Greek mythology. This term is also sometimes used referring to counterfactual history.

See also

★ EAEPE

★ Price revolution

★ History of economic thought

★ History of international trade

★ List of recessions

★ List of countries by past GDP (PPP) - For historical GDP (PPP) figures from 1 CE to 1998 CE

★ List of countries by past GDP (Nominal) - For historical GDP (Nominal) figures from 1998 to 2003

External links

Economic History Services (EHS)

★ Economic History Society Economic History Society (EHS), publisher of the ''Economic History Review''

★ EH.Net Economic History Services - Includes Economic History Encyclopedia, Ask the Professor, Book Reviews, databases, directories, bibliographies, mailing lists, and an inflation calculator.

★ International Economic History Association (IEHA)

★ Economic History Association

EHSData

★ Flandreau: Global Finance data series

★ Historicalstatistics.org - Links to historical economic statistics for different countries and regions.

★ Maddison (2006), ''The World Economy'', OECD, Paris.

★ Angus Maddison's Historical Dataseries -Series on GDP, Population and GDP per capita from the year 0 up to 2003

★ Groningen Growth and Development Centre Total Economy Database -Series on GDP, Population, Employment, Hours worked, GDP per capita and productivity (per person and per hour) from 1950 up to 2006

Other EHS

★ XIV International Economic History Conference (2006)

★ International Economic History Association

★ The European Association for Banking and Financial History e. V.

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★ EH.Net Encyclopedia:

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