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The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History
Francesco Boldizzoni
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Description for The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History
Hardback. Challenges the hold that cliometrics - an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists - has exerted on the study of our economic past. This book calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 line illus. BIC Classification: HBAH; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around. Boldizzoni questions the appeal of economics over history--which he identifies as a distinctly American attitude--exposing its errors and hidden ideologies, and revealing how it fails to explain economic behavior itself. He shows how the misguided reliance on economic reasoning ... Read more
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around. Boldizzoni questions the appeal of economics over history--which he identifies as a distinctly American attitude--exposing its errors and hidden ideologies, and revealing how it fails to explain economic behavior itself. He shows how the misguided reliance on economic reasoning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691144009
SKU
V9780691144009
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About Francesco Boldizzoni
Francesco Boldizzoni is research fellow in economic history at the University of Bari and a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of "Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500-1970".
Reviews for The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History
"Most of Boldizzoni's examples of bad economic history are also examples of bad economics. There are no shortcuts to good work. The merit of this book is to remind us of that sad truth."
George Grantham, Journal of Economic History "[Boldizzoni's] sensible guidelines
which do not negate the importance of either theory or quantification
should become standard practice for historians who want to ... Read more
George Grantham, Journal of Economic History "[Boldizzoni's] sensible guidelines
which do not negate the importance of either theory or quantification
should become standard practice for historians who want to ... Read more