The Handbook of Historical Economics
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2021
- Editors: Alberto Bisin, Giovanni Federico
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 7 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 2 6 8 - 2
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… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
- 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
Economists and economic historians as well as upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in economics who are interested in the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history
- No. of pages: 1002
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128158746
- eBook ISBN: 9780128162682
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