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Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution

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Conversations with Economic Historians

Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution

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Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution book

Conversations with Economic Historians
Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 12 December 2007
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203799635
Pages 512
eBook ISBN 9780429234859
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Humanities
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Lyons, J.S., Cain, L.P., & Williamson, S.H. (Eds.). (2007). Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203799635

ABSTRACT

This volume marks fifty years of an innovative approach to writing economic history often called "The Cliometrics Revolution." The book presents memoirs of personal development, intellectual lives and influences, new lines of historical research, long-standing debates, a growing international scholarly community, and the contingencies that guide an

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |42 pages

Introduction: economic history and cliometrics Anglo-American economic history to World War II 5I Before the New Economic History 9II New Economic History in North America 13III Historical economics in Britain 21IV Controversy: or one thing leads to another 26V Cliometrics over 50 years: retrospect and prospect 36VI

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

part |8 pages

Part I: BEFORE THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: North America

chapter |13 pages

Moses Abramovitz, interviewed by Alexander J. Field

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |13 pages

M. C. Urquhart, interviewed by R. Marvin McInnis

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |7 pages

Anna J. Schwartz, interviewed by Eugene N. White

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |19 pages

Walt W. Rostow, interviewed by John V. C. Nye

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |12 pages

Stanley Lebergott, interviewed by Fred Carstensen

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

part |5 pages

Part II: BEFORE THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: Great Britain

chapter |12 pages

H. J. Habakkuk, interviewed by Mark Thomas

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |14 pages

Phyllis Deane, interviewed by Nicholas F. R. Crafts

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |9 pages

W. A. Cole, interviewed by A. J. H. Latham

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |16 pages

R. C. O. Matthews, interviewed by

ByNicholas von Tunzelmann and Mark Thomas

part |6 pages

Part III: NEW ECONOMIC HISTORIANS: The Elders

chapter |17 pages

William N. Parker, interviewed by Paul Rhode

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |19 pages

Douglass C. North, interviewed by Gary D. Libecap,

ByJohn S. Lyons, Samuel H. Williamson

part |8 pages

Part IV: LA LOI LAFAYETTE: Cliometrics at Purdue

chapter |11 pages

Lance E. Davis, interviewed by Samuel H. Williamson and

ByJohn S. Lyons

chapter |16 pages

Jonathan R. T. Hughes, interviewed by Charles Calomiris

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |11 pages

Nathan Rosenberg, interviewed by William A. Sundstrom

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

part |6 pages

Part V: THE EXPATRIATES

chapter |9 pages

R. M. Hartwell, interviewed by Mark Thomas

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |12 pages

Eric Jones, interviewed by Nancy Folbre and Michael Huberman

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |15 pages

Charles H. Feinstein, interviewed by Mark Thomas

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

part |8 pages

Part VI: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF SIMON KUZNETS, ECONOMIST

chapter |13 pages

Richard A. Easterlin, interviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |10 pages

Robert E. Gallman, interviewed by William K. Hutchinson

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |22 pages

Robert W. Fogel, interviewed by Samuel H. Williamson and

ByJohn S. Lyons

chapter |11 pages

Stanley L. Engerman, interviewed by Anthony Patrick O’Brien

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

part |8 pages

Part VII: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF ALEXANDER GERSCHENKRON, ECONOMIC HISTORIAN

chapter |14 pages

John R. Meyer, interviewed by John C. Brown

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |11 pages

Albert Fishlow, interviewed by Eugene N. White

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |23 pages

Paul A. David, interviewed by Susan B. Carter

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |16 pages

Peter Temin, interviewed by John C. Brown

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |8 pages

AFTERWORD The shock, achievements and disappointments of the new

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |2 pages

ABBREVIATIONS

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |38 pages

REFERENCES

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |2 pages

CREDITS

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson

chapter |2 pages

CONTRIBUTORS

Edited ByJohn S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson
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