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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807666003321

Titolo

Economics and history : surveys in cliometrics / / edited by David Greasley and Les Oxley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

1-283-27422-1

9786613274229

1-4443-4672-5

1-4443-4669-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Surveys of recent research in economics ; ; 2

Classificazione

BUS023000

Altri autori (Persone)

GreasleyDavid

OxleyLes

Disciplina

330.01/5195

Soggetti

Economic history

Econometrics

History - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics; CONTENTS; Notes on Contributors; 1 Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count; 2 Social Savings; 3 Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of Recent Historical Research; 4 Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View; 5 A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; 6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey; 7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory and Applications; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area. Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy accessibility for the non-specialist readerBrings together the very latest research in this highly topical subject from leading scholarsContributions cover a broad range of areas within this subjectThe latest publicatio