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cliometrics, n. pl. (const. as sing.) orig. U.S.|ˌklaɪəˈmɛtrɪks, ˌkliːəʊ-|
[f. Clio n. + -metrics, as in biometrics, econometrics, etc.]
A technique for the interpretation of economic history, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale numerical data from population censuses, parish registers, and similar sources.
1960L. E. Davis et al. in Jrnl. Econ. Hist. XX. 540 The logical structure necessary to make historical reconstructions from the surviving debris of past economic life essentially involves ideas of history, economics and statistics. The offspring of such an act of interdisciplinary miscegenation calls for a name worthy of it; at Purdue the resulting discipline has been labeled ‘Cliometrics’. 1974Atlanta Jrnl. & Constitution 9 June c-5 Fogel and Engerman obtained their conclusions through the use of cliometrics... They scoured a large chunk of the rural South for 10 years in pursuit of census-records, birth records, old plantation lists—anything which could shed light on how slaves lived and worked. 1979Eng. Hist. Rev. XCIV. 683 Cliometrics and political science have yielded all too many articles that measure what is measurable rather than what is important. 1981D. N. McCloskey Enterprise & Trade in Victorian Brit. i. 13 The raison d'être of cliometrics is avoiding the absurdities of economic history without economics. 1990Observer 25 Mar. 67/1 Cliometrics, a word happily infrequent of late, announced itself as a school of rigorous quantitative history.
Hence clioˈmetric a.; clioˈmetrically adv., by means of cliometrics; cliomeˈtrician n., an expert in or student of cliometrics.
1966Explorations in Entrepreneurial Hist. 2nd. Ser. IV. No. 1. Suppl. 66 The cleometrician [sic], on the other hand, is likely to respond with his traditional trilogy of criticism: inadequate specification, over-aggregation, and model simplistics. 1969N.Y. Times 16 Dec. 57/1 Dr. Fogel..has cliometrically calculated that railroads were not as crucial to industrial growth as the traditional wisdom has pictured them. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 69 In economic history,..after a decade of susbstantial quantitative work, the field is clearly dominated by the self-styled cliometricians with their black boxes, magnetic tapes, punch cards, and canned programs. 1974Times 10 Oct. 12/8 Hot after cliometric paradox, the authors do not always take this point. 1977P. Laslett Family Life 10 An econometrician, or cliometrician, as he is now being called. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 897/3 A cliometric proposition..once it is wrong tends to be wholly wrong. |