TY  - JOUR
AU  - Goldin,Claudia
TI  - Cliometrics and the Nobel
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 65
PY  - 1994
Y2  - December 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0065
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0065.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Claudia Goldin
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/613-1200
Fax: 617/613-1245
E-Mail: cgoldin@harvard.edu
AB  - In October 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert William Fogel and Douglass Cecil North `for having renewed research in economic history.'  The Academy noted that `they were pioneers in the branch of economic history that has been called the þnew economic history,þ or þcliometricsþ.'  In this paper I address what this cliometrics is and how these two Nobel Prize winners furthered the discipline of economics.
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