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The handbook of historical economics / edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xxxviii, 963 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780128158746
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleLOC classification:
  • HC21 HAN
Contents:
Part 1. What is historical economics. The economic history of economic history: the evolution of a field in economics -- The two revolutions in economic history -- History as evolution -- Part 2. Sources and methods. Historical data: where to find them, how to use them -- The use of archaeological data in economics -- Ethnographic and field data in historical economics -- Historical econometrics: instrumental variables and regression discontinuity designs -- Historical natural experiments: bridging economics and economic history -- Persistence -- myth and mystery -- LATE for history -- Dynamic general equilibrium modeling of Ing short-run historical events -- Money, banking, and old-school historical economics -- Institutional change and institutional persistence -- How institutions and cultures change: an evolutionary perspective -- State power and conflict driven evolution -- Culture, institutions, and policy -- Phase diagrams in historical economics: culture and institutions -- Part 3. Topics. The economic history of commodity market development -- Why Africa is not that poor -- Religion in economic history: a survey -- Persistent failure? International interventions since World War Il -- The ancient origins of the wealth of nations -- Social mobility in historical economics -- The industrial revolution and the great divergence: recent findings from historical national accounting -- Attitudes, aptitudes, and the roots of the great enrichment -- The interplay among wages, technology, and globalization: the labor market and inequality, 1620-2020 -- Debt and taxes in eight U.S. wars and two insurrections -- Biogeography, writing, and the origins of the state -- The wife's protector: a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage.
Summary: "The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand."--Publisher's description
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Core Collection Main Library Core Collection HC21 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 157219 Available BK144789

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. What is historical economics. The economic history of economic history: the evolution of a field in economics -- The two revolutions in economic history -- History as evolution -- Part 2. Sources and methods. Historical data: where to find them, how to use them -- The use of archaeological data in economics -- Ethnographic and field data in historical economics -- Historical econometrics: instrumental variables and regression discontinuity designs -- Historical natural experiments: bridging economics and economic history -- Persistence -- myth and mystery -- LATE for history -- Dynamic general equilibrium modeling of Ing short-run historical events -- Money, banking, and old-school historical economics -- Institutional change and institutional persistence -- How institutions and cultures change: an evolutionary perspective -- State power and conflict driven evolution -- Culture, institutions, and policy -- Phase diagrams in historical economics: culture and institutions -- Part 3. Topics. The economic history of commodity market development -- Why Africa is not that poor -- Religion in economic history: a survey -- Persistent failure? International interventions since World War Il -- The ancient origins of the wealth of nations -- Social mobility in historical economics -- The industrial revolution and the great divergence: recent findings from historical national accounting -- Attitudes, aptitudes, and the roots of the great enrichment -- The interplay among wages, technology, and globalization: the labor market and inequality, 1620-2020 -- Debt and taxes in eight U.S. wars and two insurrections -- Biogeography, writing, and the origins of the state -- The wife's protector: a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage.

"The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand."--Publisher's description

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