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Cliometrics, sometimes called new economic history, or econometric history, is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history (especially, social and economic history).〔https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642404054〕 It is a quantitative (as opposed to qualitative or ethnographic) approach to economic history.〔Edward L. Glaeser, ("Remembering the Father of Transportation Economics" ), ''The New York Times'' (Economix), October 27, 2009.〕 The term ''cliometrics'' comes from Clio, who was the muse of history, and was originally coined by the mathematical economist Stanley Reiter in 1960. ==History of the discipline== The new economic history originated in 1958 with ''The Economics of Slavery in the Antebellum South'' by American economists Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer, which caused a firestorm of controversy with its claim, based on statistical data, that slavery would have ended even in the absence of the U.S. Civil War.〔 The new economic history revolution actually began in the mid-1960s and was resisted because many incumbent economic historians were either historians or economists who had very little connection to economic modeling or statistical techniques. Areas of key interest included transportation history, slavery,〔 and agriculture. Cliometrics became better known when Douglass North and William Parker became the editors of the ''Journal of Economic History'' in 1960. The Cliometrics Meetings began to be held around this time at Purdue University and are still held annually in different locations. Today, cliometric approaches are standard in several journals, including the ''Journal of Economic History'', ''Explorations in Economic History'', the ''European Review of Economic History'', and ''Cliometrica''. According to cliometric economist Claudia Goldin, the success of the cliometric revolution had as an unintended consequence the disappearance of economic historians from history departments. As economic historians started using the same tools as economists, they started to seem more like other economists. In Goldin's words, "the new economic historians extinguished the other side". The other side nearly disappeared altogether, with only a few remaining in history departments and business schools. However, some new economic historians did, in fact, begin research around this time, among them were Kemmerer and Larry Neal (a student of Albert Fishlow, a leader of the cliometric revolution) from Illinois, Paul Uselding from Johns Hopkins, Jeremy Atack from Indiana, and Thomas Ulen from Stanford. A group to encourage and further the study of cliometrics, The Cliometric Society, was founded in 1983. Cliometrics was introduced to Germany by American-born and -educated Richard H. Tilly since the 1970s.〔(Verleihung des Helmut-Schmidt-Preises 2009 an Richard Hugh Tilly )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cliometrics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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