Cliometrics

Cliometrics is the application of economic theory and statistical methods to the study of history, replacing narrative-only historical accounts with quantifiable, testable evidence. The term and methodology were introduced by Alfred Conrad and John Meyer, American economists, in their 1957 paper. The discipline was later popularized and legitimized at the highest academic level by Robert Fogel (1926-2013, American) and Douglass North (1920-2015, American), who jointly won the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for renewing economic history research through quantitative methods.