Definition of cliometrics in English:
cliometrics
plural noun ˌklʌɪə(ʊ)ˈmɛtrɪksˌklīəˈmetriks
treated as singular 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.
Example sentencesExamples
- Robson's work was an early exercise in cliometrics.
- Different fashions became more influential for a short or sometimes longer period, for instance cliometrics and anthropological history.
- He has criticized most French economic historians for their insularity, both for sticking to their national history and for avoiding cliometrics.
- This short - 111 pages of text - and brilliant book owes somewhat more to quantitative economic history in the Kuznetsian tradition than to cliometrics per se.
- Her jigsaw pieces are her computer files compiled for over six thousand individuals, the basis of her sophisticated cliometrics.
- In another passage Weber defines the tasks of economic history as a precursor of neoclassical cliometrics.
- Moreover, the relation between cliometrics and the history of economic growth is actually more subtle than Drukker lets on.
Derivatives
adjective
Indeed, as I showed in Mokyr, there is no single cliometric explanation of the Industrial Revolution.
Example sentencesExamples
- He was apparently unaware of ongoing cliometric research on the profits of imperial enterprise.
- Economic historians of the cliometric persuasion, however, will be frustrated as often as they are enlightened.
- Recent cliometric work has challenged the Whiggish point of view.
- When I first began to work on this project, cliometric quantifiers and mathematical modelers were the cutting-edge interpreters of slavery.
noun
But before they could secure final victory, there emerged a research agenda that yielded a new set of weapons - new to the cliometricians anyway.
Example sentencesExamples
- However, economic history withstood the number-crunching cliometricians, and the narrative style is back in vogue.
- This afterword is both a nice appreciation and an interesting overview of the career of one of the original cliometricians.
- However, the questions that motivate this study are fascinating and well worth the attention of cliometricians, even if they are not the questions that we are used to asking.
- Its sheer complexity may render it impossible even to an accomplished cliometrician.
Origin
1960s (originally US): from Clio, on the pattern of words such as econometrics.