Abstract
As a student of Simon Kuznets, himself a Nobel Laureate in Economics, Robert Fogel would surely insist that he and Douglass North are not the first economic historians to be so honored. Fogel and North are, however, the first of the new school of cliometricians practitioners of an economic history characterized by the explicit use of economic theory, quantification and formal hypothesis tests to be recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Prior to the 1960s, economics and economic history had grown apart. Samuelson's Foundations (1947)' was a landmark on a route along which research in economics became progressively more abstract, formal and mathematical. By the 1950s, issues that had long formed the intellectual agenda of economic historians the determinants of economic growth, technical change and the distribution of income had captured the imagination of a new generation of theorists who applied to them abstract modeling techniques. Economic history increasingly became the domain of scholars of a more traditional methodological bent situated largely outside of economics departments. As H. J. Habakkuk, the British economic historian, retrospectively described the situation:
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