The poverty of Clio resurrecting economic history

The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which hist...

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Main Author:	Boldizzoni, Francesco
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2011
Edition:	1
Subjects:	Agriculture Annales School Behavioral economics Bourgeoisie BUSINESS & ECONOMICS BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History Calculation Capitalism Classical economics Commodity Competition Consumer Goods Consumption (economics) Cost–benefit analysis Criticism Cultural history Dichotomy Douglass North Early modern period Economic anthropology Economic development Economic growth Economic History Economic sociology Economics Economics > History Economics > Research > Methodology Economist Economy Entrepreneurship Ethics Expense Explanation Historiography HISTORY HISTORY / Historiography Household Human behavior Ideology Income Individualism Institution Institutionalism Kliometrie Macroeconomics Mainstream economics Market economy Market price Methodology Microeconomics Neoclassical economics Neolithic Revolution New institutional economics New institutionalism Opportunism Path dependence Political science Politics Prediction Profit motive Rational choice Rational choice theory Rationality Requirement Research methods Scarcity Self-interest Slavery Social research Social science Social structure Social theory Society Sociology Superiority (short story) Tax The Economist The Other Hand Theory Transaction cost Uncertainty Wealth Wirtschaftsgeschichte Competition New institutional economics Consumption (economics) Explanation Income Individualism Scarcity Economic sociology Tax Institution Market price Economic history Early modern period The Economist Dichotomy Cultural history Political science Economic growth Expense Mainstream economics Ideology Consumer Goods Calculation Economics Rationality Prediction Household Social structure Rational choice theory Bourgeoisie Capitalism Economist Requirement Neoclassical economics Social science Microeconomics Society Self-interest Human behavior Market economy Slavery Uncertainty Theory Economic anthropology Neolithic Revolution New institutionalism Annales School Ethics Douglass North Economy Commodity Sociology Agriculture Path dependence Macroeconomics Criticism Opportunism Profit motive Economic development Behavioral economics Historiography Transaction cost Entrepreneurship The Other Hand Politics Social theory Classical economics Superiority (short story) Wealth Cost–benefit analysis
ISBN:	0691144001, 9780691144009, 9781400838851, 1400838851
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Table of Contents:

The poverty of Clio: resurrecting economic history -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Truth on the Cross: Science and Ideology -- Chapter 2: Economics with a Human Face? -- Chapter 3: The Fanciful World of Clio -- Chapter 4: The World We Have Lost: Microeconomic History -- Chapter 5: The World We Have Lost: Macroeconomic Perspectives -- Chapter 6: Building on the Past: The Creative Power of History -- References -- Index.
Front Matter Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: TRUTH ON THE CROSS Chapter 2: ECONOMICS WITH A HUMAN FACE? Chapter 3: THE FANCIFUL WORLD OF CLIO Chapter 4: THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST Chapter 5: THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST Chapter 6: BUILDING ON THE PAST References Index
References Index Chapter 6. Building on the Past: The Creative Power of History Chapter 5. The World We Have Lost: Macroeconomic Perspectives Chapter 4. The World We Have Lost: Microeconomic History Chapter 3. The Fanciful World of Clio Chapter 2. Economics with a Human Face? Chapter 1. Truth on the Cross: Science and Ideology Preface Cover Title Page, Copyright Contents
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Truth on the Cross: Science and Ideology -- Chapter 2 Economics with a Human Face? -- Chapter 3 The Fanciful World of Clio -- Chapter 4 The World We Have Lost: Microeconomic History -- Chapter 5 The World We Have Lost: Macroeconomic Perspectives -- Chapter 6 Building on the Past: The Creative Power of History -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z
Chapter 6 Building on the Past
Chapter 2. Economics with a Human Face?
Chapter 4. The World We Have Lost
Index
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Chapter 3. The Fanciful World of Clio
References
Chapter 1. TRUTH ON THE CROSS
Frontmatter --
Preface
Chapter 5. The World We Have Lost