Economic history
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Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, s
Economic history department, London School of Economics (1971)
Thomas Piketty, economist and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013)
Cliometrics
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Cliometrics, sometimes called 'new economic history' or 'econometric history', is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the
Economic history
…applied in financial and business history, which overlap with areas of social history such as demographic and labor history. In the sub-discipline of cliometrics, economists use quantitative (econometric) methods. In history of capitalism, historians explain economic historical issues and processes from a…
Clio by Pierre Mignard, oil on canvas, 1689