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Effects of the Cliometric Revolution
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POWER POINT 7
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• Success of the cliometric revolution had as an unintended consequence (at least in the US) the disappearance of economic historians from history departments. As economic historians started using the same tools as economists, they started to seem more like other economists. • uncovering of vast treasure troves of useful data hitherto either unknown, unappreciated, or simply ignored.” • Very early in the computer age they put such data into forms suitable for tabulation and statistical analysis. Critics to Cliometrics Critics are well summarized in Francesco Boldizzoni’s book “The poverty of Clio”. According to the critics of Cliometrics this: • Places few attention to the historical context • Is based on the false assumption that the laws of neo- classical economics always apply to human activity. • Those laws, he says, are based on rational choice, maximization, perfect competition and do not apply to economies other than those of the capitalist West in the modern era. • Boldizzoni argues that the workings of economies are determined by social, political and cultural conditions specific to each society and time period. The Sources of History Types of Sources: 1. Primary sources: original sources of information (documents) produced by both private and public institutions (individuals, hospitals, convents, churches as well as municipalities and the central authority). 2. Printed primary sources: published, translated versions of original sources of information. 3. Secondary sources: documents that relate or discuss information originally presented elsewhere. Information reported here involves collection, analysis, interpretation or evaluation of the original information (data are often presented in tables, charts etcc…). Download 0.83 Mb. Share with your friends:
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