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Title: Editor’s introduction: The Good of Counting

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2008

ISBN: 9780203928134

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Abstract: One of the principal achievements of the cliometric revolution is the approach to quantitative economic history that it spawned (McCloskey 1978). Economic historians have, of course, always relied upon quantitative evidence, but beginning in the 1950s cliometricians began to analyze quantitative data in new ways. Most importantly they explicitly acknowledged the connection between economic theory and quantitative evidence. Theory not only provided guidance about what to measure, but also how to measure it, and in turn, then, suggested entirely new types of evidence that had not previously been subjected to careful analysis. Even now, after more than half a century, the field of quantitative economic history continues to yield new insights about the past.

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Authors: Rosenbloom, Joshua, L

Editors: Rosenbloom, Joshua, L

Pages: 1-7

Volume Title: Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting

Publisher: Routledge

Publisher Location: London

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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