Author : Alberto Bisin,Giovanni Federico
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128162682
The Handbook of Historical Economics by Alberto Bisin,Giovanni Federico Pdf
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. Provides an historical outline of the two cliometric revolutions, highlighting the similarities and the differences between the two Surveys the issues and principal results of the "second cliometric revolution" Explores innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in data-driven, empirical economics