Exploring the "present through the past": career and family across the last century
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The development of cliometrics as a discipline, especially in the US, is discussed over the period 1965 to 1997. Studies on cliometrics from 1965 to 1975 mainly focused on the principles of history which are taught in history courses in secondary and college schools. In 1985, cliometrics became a discipline that investigates and analyzes the present through the past. Present-day issues rather than canons of history became the inspiration of cliometrics. A study of the present through the past is illustrated using women college graduates' career and family histories.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1997
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External shocks and financial collapse: foreign-loan guarantees and intertemporal substitution of investment in Texas and Chile
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The ability of government guarantees on foreign loans to distort macroeconomic adjustment was studied. It was hypothesized that the guarantees would postpone the process of liquidation. A model was developed to show how the delay in paying loan guarantees by the government could cause investment expenditure to shift intertemporally into the period prior to the termination of the loan guarantees. The delays in closing insolvent financial institutions in Chile and Texas in the 1980s contributed to the economic collapse of these regions.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1992
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Notes on cliometrics' fortieth
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Most criticisms regarding cliometrics are mistaken yet productive and challenging. An example of such criticism is the recommendation that cliometrics is partly accountable for the incorporation of computers into history. Another is the accusation that counterfactual exercises and hypotheses are overused by cliometricians. In general, critics target the issue that cliometrics dehumanize history by using economic theory and numbers in history.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1997
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