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New sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions. They are framing these questions differently and agreeing upon new methods for handling data. The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through these trends in examining historical determinants of current phenomena and deriving more statistical inferences from bigger data sets.
Unlike more narrowly directed textbooks and handbooks of cliometrics, this handbook is the only volume on quantitative economic history that deals with the methodological foundations of economic history and surveys up-to-date econometric methods. Its coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. Explores innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in data-driven empirical economics.
Provides a methodological outline of Historical Economics as a field, highlighting the similarities and the differences with economic history and economics. Surveys the issues and principal results of Historical Economics.