Cliometrics and the Nobel

In October 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert William Fogel and Douglass Cecil North `for having renewed research in economic history.' The Academy noted that `they were pioneers in the branch of economic history that has been called the þnew economic history,þ or þcliometricsþ.' In this paper I address what this cliometrics is and how these two Nobel Prize winners furthered the discipline of economics.

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Year of publication:	1994-12
Authors:	Goldin, Claudia
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	NBER Historical Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	DAE published as Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1995. Number 0065
Classification:	N0 - Economic History. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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