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Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution
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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
part |8 pages
Part I: BEFORE THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: North America
chapter |13 pages
Moses Abramovitz, interviewed by Alexander J. Field
chapter |13 pages
M. C. Urquhart, interviewed by R. Marvin McInnis
chapter |7 pages
Anna J. Schwartz, interviewed by Eugene N. White
chapter |19 pages
Walt W. Rostow, interviewed by John V. C. Nye
chapter |12 pages
Stanley Lebergott, interviewed by Fred Carstensen
part |5 pages
Part II: BEFORE THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY: Great Britain
chapter |12 pages
H. J. Habakkuk, interviewed by Mark Thomas
chapter |14 pages
Phyllis Deane, interviewed by Nicholas F. R. Crafts
chapter |9 pages
W. A. Cole, interviewed by A. J. H. Latham
part |6 pages
Part III: NEW ECONOMIC HISTORIANS: The Elders
chapter |17 pages
William N. Parker, interviewed by Paul Rhode
chapter |19 pages
Douglass C. North, interviewed by Gary D. Libecap,
part |8 pages
Part IV: LA LOI LAFAYETTE: Cliometrics at Purdue
chapter |16 pages
Jonathan R. T. Hughes, interviewed by Charles Calomiris
chapter |11 pages
Nathan Rosenberg, interviewed by William A. Sundstrom
part |6 pages
Part V: THE EXPATRIATES
chapter |9 pages
R. M. Hartwell, interviewed by Mark Thomas
chapter |12 pages
Eric Jones, interviewed by Nancy Folbre and Michael Huberman
chapter |15 pages
Charles H. Feinstein, interviewed by Mark Thomas
part |8 pages
Part VI: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF SIMON KUZNETS, ECONOMIST
chapter |13 pages
Richard A. Easterlin, interviewed by Kenneth L. Sokoloff
chapter |10 pages
Robert E. Gallman, interviewed by William K. Hutchinson
chapter |11 pages
Stanley L. Engerman, interviewed by Anthony Patrick O’Brien
part |8 pages
Part VII: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF ALEXANDER GERSCHENKRON, ECONOMIC HISTORIAN