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Quantitative history is a method of historical research that uses quantitative, statistical and computer resources. It is a type of the social science history and has four major journals: Historical Methods (1967– ), [1] Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1968– ), [2] the Social Science History (1976– ), [3] and Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution ...
Pierre Chaunu (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃony]; 17 August 1923 – 22 October 2009) [ 1 ] was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitative history as the founder of "serial history", he was ...
History of statistics. Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing sovereign states. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, particularly demographics such as population. This was later extended to include all collections of ...
Angus Maddison. Angus Maddison (6 December 1926 – 24 April 2010) was a distinguished British economist specialising in quantitative macro economic history, including the measurement and analysis of economic growth and development. [1][2][3] Maddison lectured at several universities over the course of his career, including the University of St ...
Cliodynamics (/ ˌ k l iː oʊ d aɪ ˈ n æ m ɪ k s /) is a transdisciplinary area of research that integrates cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical modeling of historical processes during the longue durée, and the construction and analysis of historical databases. [1] Cliodynamics treats history ...
Cliometrics (/ ˌ k l aɪ. oʊ ə ˈ m ɛ t. r ɪ k s /, also / ˌ k l iː oʊ ˈ m ɛ t. r ɪ k s /), sometimes called 'new economic history' [1] or 'econometric history', [2] 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). [3]
Paul Bairoch sought through quantitative, empirical research of historical trends to question and challenge many beliefs which are nowadays generally accepted in economics (see in particular his work Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes), among which: the idea that free trade historically led to periods of economic growth; that moving away from free trade caused the Great ...
v. t. e. Comparative historical research is a method of social science that examines historical events in order to create explanations that are valid beyond a particular time and place, either by direct comparison to other historical events, theory building, or reference to the present day. [1][2] Generally, it involves comparisons of social ...