Economics and History (eBook)

David Greasley is Professor of Economic History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh University. His research interests include the construction of national income accounts in historical perspective, comparative economic development, the Great Depression in the USA, British industrialization since 1700, and the economic history of New Zealand. Les Oxley is Professor in Economics at the University of Canterbury, and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include modelling and testing theories of economic growth, financial econometrics, intellectual property, energy economics and cliometrics. He is a founding editor of Blackwell's Journal of Economic Surveys and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Notes on Contributors vi

1 Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count 1

David Greasley and Les Oxley

2 Social Savings 21

Tim Leunig

3 Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of
Recent Historical Research 47

Kris Inwood and Evan Roberts

4 Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View 87

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

5 A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of
Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half
of the Twentieth Century 141

Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and Brendan
Livingston

6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey 187

Timothy J. Hatton

7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory and
Applications 217

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Index 289