Handbook of Cliometrics

Claude Diebolt is CNRS Research Professor of Economics (esp. cliometrics) at the University of Strasbourg. He is Founding President of the Association Française de Cliométrie, Founding Managing Editor of the journal Cliometrica (Springer) member of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society and of the Governing Board of the Association Française de Science Economique. Since January 2013, Claude Diebolt is Fellow of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS). Mike Haupert is Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. He is the Executive Director of the Cliometric Society, having previously served as the editor of the society's newsletter for eight years. He is also a member of the Association Française de Cliometrie. His interest in cliometrics began when he was a graduate student at Washington University in the 1980s, studying under Douglass North and John Nye.

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view.- History of cliometrics.-
Growth theories.- Cliometric approaches to war.- GDP and convergence in modern times.- Cliometrics and the great depression.- Financial Systems.- Cliometric approaches to international trade.-
Time series.- The industrial revolution: a cliometric perspective.-
The cliometric study of financial panics and crashes.

"The editors are to be commended for taking on such a challenging yet important assignment and for recruiting such a strong set of contributors. The resultant volume contains worthwhile contributions that readers from a range of disciplines and varying degrees of commitment to cliometrics will want to consult." (David Mitch, EH.net, July, 2016)