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

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

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.