Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians

by Lyons; John S.

• ISBN13: 9780415700917
• ISBN10: 0415700914
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The book presents memoirs of intellectual lives. In conversation with cliometricians of the next generation, 25 pioneering scholars reflect on changes in the practice of economic history they have observed and have helped to bring about.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Sources and Conventions	p. xiv
Introduction: economic history and cliometrics	p. 1
Anglo-American economic history to World War II	p. 5
Before the New Economic History	p. 9
New Economic History in North America	p. 13
Historical economics in Britain	p. 21
Controversy: or one thing leads to another	p. 26
Cliometrics over 50 years: retrospect and prospect	p. 36
Before the New Economic History: North America	p. 43
Moses Abramovitz	p. 51
M. C. Urquhart	p. 64
Anna J. Schwartz	p. 77
Walt W. Rostow	p. 84
Stanley Lebergott	p. 103
Before the New Economic History: Great Britain	p. 115
H. J. Habakkuk	p. 120
Phyllis Deane	p. 132
W. A. Cole	p. 146
R. C. O. Matthews	p. 155
New Economic Historians: The Elders	p. 171
William N. Parker	p. 177
Douglass C. North	p. 194
Further Reflections	p. 211
La Loi Lafayette: cliometrics at Purdue	p. 213
Lance E. Davis	p. 221
Jonathan R. T. Hughes	p. 232
Nathan Rosenberg	p. 248
The Expatriates	p. 259
R. M. Hartwell	p. 265
Eric Jones	p. 274
Further Reflections	p. 282
Charles H. Feinstein	p. 286
From the workshop of Simon Kuznets, economist	p. 301
Richard A. Easterlin	p. 309
Robert E. Gallman	p. 322
Robert W. Fogel	p. 332
Further Reflections	p. 351
Stanley L. Engerman	p. 354
Further Reflections	p. 361
From the workshop of Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian	p. 365
John R. Meyer	p. 373
Albert Fishlow	p. 387
Further Reflections	p. 395
Paul A. David	p. 398
Further Reflections	p. 418
Peter Temin	p. 421
Further Reflections	p. 433
Afterword: Patrick Karl O'Brien: the shock, achievements and disappointments of the new	p. 437
Abbreviations	p. 445
References	p. 447
Credits	p. 485
Contributors	p. 487
Index	p. 489
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