David Greasley & Les Oxley 
Economics and History [PDF ebook] 
Surveys in Cliometrics

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys
from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions
are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist
reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly
topical area.

* Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy
accessibility for the non-specialist reader

* Brings together the very latest research in this highly
topical subject from leading scholars

* Contributions cover a broad range of areas within this
subject

* The latest publication in the highly successful Surveys
of Recent Research in Economics Book Series

Inhoudsopgave

Notes on Contributors vi

1 Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count 1

David Greasley and Les Oxley

2 Social Savings 21

Tim Leunig

3 Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of
Recent Historical Research 47

Kris Inwood and Evan Roberts

4 Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View 87

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

5 A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of
Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half
of the Twentieth Century 141

Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and Brendan
Livingston

6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey 187

Timothy J. Hatton

7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory and
Applications 217

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Index 289

Over de auteur

David Greasley is Professor of Economic History in the
School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh
University. His research interests include the construction of
national income accounts in historical perspective, comparative
economic development, the Great Depression in the USA, British
industrialization since 1700, and the economic history of New
Zealand.

Les Oxley is Professor in Economics at the University of
Canterbury, and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of
Technology, Australia. His research interests include
modelling and testing theories of economic growth, financial
econometrics, intellectual property, energy economics and
cliometrics. He is a founding editor of Blackwell’s
Journal of Economic Surveys and sits on the editorial boards
of several international journals.