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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Summary:	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 history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-207) and index SourceType-Books-1 ObjectType-Book-1 content type line 7
ISBN:	0691144001 9780691144009 9781400838851 1400838851
DOI:	10.1515/9781400838851