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Cliometrics

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, cliometrics means: The application of economic theory and quantitative methods to questions about the past.

In Turkish: kliyometri

How it is used

Explain the data and assumptions; numerical analysis does not remove problems in historical evidence.

Example sentences

  1. The study uses cliometrics to estimate changes in farm productivity.

    Economic measures are reconstructed from historical observations.

  2. The seminar questioned the wage assumptions behind this exercise in cliometrics.

    Models depend on choices that remain open to historical criticism.

Common collocations

  • cliometric analysis
  • the methods of cliometrics
  • evidenceInformation from sources, objects or data that helps show whether a claim about the past is true, or how likely it is.
  • interpretationA particular explanation of what past events meant or why they happened, based on the evidence and on the historian's questions and point of view.

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