Economic history is the study of how economic phenomena evolved in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using historical methods and statistical methods, sometimes to test economic theories. The topic includes business history and overlaps with areas of social history such as demographic history and labor history. Quantitative economic history is also referred to as Cliometrics.

• economic history - Description
  • Practitioners and advocates of the first approach, which was for a long time dominant in the United Kingdom, generally regarded economic history as being either an independent discipline or a subfield of history. Practitioners of the second approach, which is more influential in the United States and rapidly extending worldwide, usually regard economic history as a subfield of economics. The term cliometrics (a reference to Clio, the Muse of history) is used to describe the application of econometric and statistical techniques to the study of economic history. In France, economic theory and demographics was early integrated into mainstream historiography due to the large impact of the Annales School of history from the 1920s and onwards.
• economic history - Cliometrics
  • Cliometrics refers to the systematic use of economic theory and econometrics techniques to study economic history . The term was originally coined by Jonathan R.T. Hughes and Stanley Reiter in 1960 and refers to Clio, who was the muse of history and heroic poetry in Greek mythology. This term is also sometimes used referring to counterfactual history.
• economic history - See also
  • • EAEPE
• economic history - External links
  • • • economic history - External links - Economic History Services (EHS)
        • • EH.Net Economic History Services - Includes Economic History Encyclopedia, Ask the Professor, Book Reviews, databases, directories, bibliographies, mailing lists, and an inflation calculator.
• economic history - Related topics