The handbook of historical economics /

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 application...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bisin, Alberto (Editor ), Federico, Giovanni, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2022.
Temas:
Economic history.
Histoire �economique.
Economic history
Handbook
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Handbook of Historical Economics
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Merger or acquisition? An introduction to The Handbook of Historical Economics
  • 1 Historical Economics
  • 2 Sources, methods, models, topics
  • 2.1 Part 1: The evolution of the discipline
  • 2.2 Part 2: Sources, methods, and models
  • 2.3 Part 3: Topics
  • 3 The challenges of Historical Economics
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part 1 What is historical economics
  • 1 The economic history of economic history: the evolution of a field in economics
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Economics and economic history in the United States before World War Two
  • 1.3 The cliometrics revolution
  • 1.4 Not your father's economic history
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 2 The two revolutions in economic history
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Cliometric Revolution
  • 2.3 Intermezzo: economic history at the turn of the 20th century
  • 2.4 The Second Revolution: a general view
  • 2.5 The Second Revolution: beyond the traditional boundaries of economic history
  • 2.6 Conclusions
  • 2.7 Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 3 History as evolution
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The benefits of cultural evolution
  • 3.2.1 Cultural evolution saves on information costs
  • 3.2.1.1 Theory
  • 3.2.1.2 Evidence
  • 3.2.2 Cultural evolution is cumulative
  • 3.2.2.1 Theory
  • 3.2.2.2 Evidence
  • 3.3 Insights from a recognition of history as evolution
  • 3.3.1 Environmental mismatch
  • 3.3.1.1 Endogenous mismatch
  • 3.3.2 Education and cultural evolution
  • 3.3.2.1 Innovation and the collective brain
  • 3.3.3 How and why history matters
  • 3.3.3.1 Kludges
  • 3.3.4 Group-level selection
  • 3.3.5 Biology, sex, and gender
  • 3.4 Contributions of economics to cultural evolution
  • 3.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part 2 Sources and methods
  • 4 Historical data: where to find them, how to use them
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Geographical data
  • 4.2.1 Assessing the suitability of geographic data
  • 4.2.2 Projections, inaccurate or sketched maps, distance measures
  • 4.2.3 Reconciling changing unit boundaries
  • 4.2.4 Detailed data presentation: a practical guide using GIS
  • 4.2.5 Other geographical data
  • 4.2.5.1 FAO GAEZ
  • 4.2.5.2 Rivers
  • 4.2.5.3 Elevation
  • 4.2.5.4 Climate data
  • 4.3 Ethnographic data
  • 4.3.1 Political characteristics
  • 4.3.2 Economic characteristics
  • 4.3.3 Cultural characteristics
  • 4.3.4 Connecting the past to the present
  • 4.4 Censuses
  • 4.4.1 The use of complete count population censuses
  • 4.4.2 Linking historical information using names
  • 4.4.3 Machine learning algorithm
  • 4.5 Other historical data
  • 4.5.1 Military history
  • 4.5.2 Transportation networks
  • 4.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 5 The use of archaeological data in economics
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The stone age
  • 5.2.1 The Paleolithic
  • 5.2.2 The Neolithic
  • 5.3 Persistent economic disparities
  • 5.4 The rise of the state

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