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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.01/5195
• Soggetto topico: Economic history; Econometrics; History - Methodology
• Classificazione: BUS023000
• Altri autori: GreasleyDavid OxleyLes
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Economics and history
• ISBN: 1-283-27422-1; 9786613274229; 1-4443-4672-5; 1-4443-4669-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807666003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Surveys of recent research in economics ; ; 2.