New Economic History Research Articles

Studies in Econometric History. By Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer

South African Journal of EconomicsVolume 35, Issue 2 p. 169-169 Studies in Econometric History. By Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer G. J. Trotter, G. J. Trotter University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.Search for more papers by this author G. J. Trotter, G. J. Trotter University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1967 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.1967.tb02495.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume35, Issue2June 1967Pages 169-169 RelatedInformation

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Studies in Econometric History.

Studies in Econometric History.

II. PROFESSOR FOGEL AND THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY

The Economic History ReviewVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 657-663 II. PROFESSOR FOGEL AND THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY LANCE DAVIS, LANCE DAVIS Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author LANCE DAVIS, LANCE DAVIS Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1966 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1966.tb00995.xCitations: 3AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume19, Issue3December 1966Pages 657-663 RelatedInformation

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Book Reviews

Abstract Abstract Introductory Engineering Statistics. Irwin Guttman and Samuel S. Wilks. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1965. Pp. xiv, 340. Reviewed by Eugene L. Grant Decision and Value Theory. Peter C. Fishburn. (Publications in Operations Research, Number 10, Operations Research Society of America) New York: John Wiley and Sons., 1964. Pp. xvi, 451. $13.75. Reviewed by Gordon Antelman Mathematical Theory of Reliability. R. E. Barlow and F. Proschan with contributions by L. C. Hunter. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1965. xiii + 256 pp. Illus. $11.00. Reviewed by Benjamin Epstein Prediction and Regulation by Linear Least-Square Methods. P. Whittle. London: The English Universities Press Ltd., 1963. Reviewed by P. Masani Handbook of Nonparametric Statistics, II. John E. Walsh. Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1965. Pp. xxvi, 686. $17.50. Reviewed by Lionel Weiss Survey Reliability and Interviewer Competence. Mathew Hauck and Stanley Steinkamp. (Studies in Consumer Savings, No. 4.) Urbana, Illinois: Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, 1964. Pp. x, 112. $3.00. Reviewed by John Neter Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History. Robert William Fogel. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. Pp. xv, 296. $6.95. Reviewed by William G. Whitney The Morphology of Greek Industry. George Coutsoumaris. Athens, Greece; Center of Economic Research, Paper. Pp. viii, 430. Reviewed by Hourmouzis George Georgiadis The Changing Travel Market. John B. Lansing and Dwight M. Blood. Ann Arbor Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1964. Pp. 374. $10.00. Reviewed by Donald E. Church Mode Choice in Intercity Travel: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis. John B. Lansing and Dwight M. Blood. Ann Arbor: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, 1964. Pp. 1–64, Appendices. Reviewed by George Fisk On Theory and Verification in Sociology. Hans L. Zetterberg. Third Enlarged Edition. Totowa, N. J.: The Bedminister Press, 1965. Pp. 177. Price $4.50. Reviewed by Charles M. Grigg An Introduction to Psychological Statistics. Philip H. DuBois. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. Pp. xi, 530. $7.95. Reviewed by James K. Brewer Linear Programming and Its Extensions. George B. Dantzig. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press, 1963. Reviewed by Stanley Reiter Models, Measurement and Marketing. Peter Langhoff (ed.). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965. 216 pages. Reviewed by Ronald Frank Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions. Bierman, Fouraker and Jaedicke. Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1961. Pp. 358 + xi, $7.95. Reviewed by M. J. Moroney Finite Mathematics with Applications in the Social and Management Sciences. Louis O. Kattsoff and Albert J. Simone. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Pp. 407. $8.95. Reviewed by Donald G. Morrison Statistics as Applied to Economics and Business. Wessel, Robert H., Willett, Edward R., and Simone, Albert J. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1964. $7.95. Reviewed by James L. Murphy Operations Research: Process and Strategy. David S. Stoller. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964. Pp. vii, 159. $5.00. Reviewed by Frederick S. Hillier Statistics in Physical Science: Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, and Least Squares. Walter Clark Hamilton. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1964. Pp. xi, 230. $10.00. Reviewed by W. R. Allen Accounting and Analytical Methods. Richard Mattessich. Illinois, Homewood: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1964. Pp. 194. Reviewed by Yuji Ijiri The Mathematics of Life Insurance. Walter O. Menge and Carl H. Fischer. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1965. Pp. 191, $6.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Myers Probability, A Programmed Workbook. Albert E. Hickey and Sanford M. Autor. Reviewed by H. D. Brunk Elements of Numerical Analysis. Peter Henrici. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1964. Pp. xv, 328. $8.00. Reviewed by H.A.D. Introduction to FORTRAN, S. C. Plumb, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1964. Pp. vii+203. $3.50. Reviewed by A.M. Decision-Making: An Annotated Bibliography Supplement, 1958–1963, Paul Wasserman and Fred S. Silander. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cayuga Press, Inc., 1964. Pp. iv-178. $4.75. Reviewed by A.M.

The Economics of Slavery and Other Studies in Econometric History

How are economists and historians to explain what happened in history? What statistical inferences can be drawn from historical data? The authors believe that explanation in history can be identified with the problems of prediction in a probabilistic universe. Using this approach, the historian can act upon his a priori information and his judgment of what is unique and particular in each past event, even with data hitherto considered to be intractable for statistical treatment. In essence, the book is an argument for and a demonstration of the point of view that the restricted approach of measurement without theory is not necessary in history, or at least not necessary in economic history.After two chapters of theoretical introduction, the authors explore the meanings and implications of evidence, explanation and proof in history by applying econometric methods to the analysis of three major problems in 19th century economic history--the profitability of slavery in the antebellum South, income growth and development in the United States during the 1800's, and The Great Depression in the British economy; also included is a postscript on growth reassessing some current arguments in the light of the findings of these papers.The book presents an original and provocative approach to historical problems that have long plagued economists and historians and provides the reader with a new approach to these and similar questions.

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History. By Robert William Fogel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. xv + 296 pp. Tables, charts, figures, notes, appendices, selected bibliography, and index. $6.95.) Get access Robert E. Riegel Robert E. Riegel Texas Western College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 3, December 1965, Pages 635–636, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890873 Published: 01 December 1965

“New” and Traditional Approaches to Economic History and Their Interdependence

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various new or current approaches to economic history. In so doing I reluctantly use the now widely accepted terms “new” economic, or “econometric,” history considered by some authors as synonymous. In fact, however, there is both a broader and a narrower application of the phrase “new economic history.” In the broader sense, the term embraces the work of the various authors who have in common as their aim theoretically underpinned quantitative economic history; in the narrower, it refers only to what I shall call the “model builders.” Moreover the terminology seems to be in process of change.

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

The Economics of Slavery and Other Studies in Econometric History

The Economics of Slavery and Other Studies in Econometric History

The Economics of Slavery: and Other Studies in Econometric History

The Economics of Slavery: and Other Studies in Econometric History

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History.

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History.

Quantitative Japanese Economic History. An Annotated Bibliography and a Survey of U. S. Holdings.

Quantitative Japanese Economic History. An Annotated Bibliography and a Survey of U. S. Holdings.

An International Comparison of Household Expenditure Patterns, Commemorating the Centenary of Engel's Law

FEW DATES in the history of econometrics are more significant than 1857. In that year Ernst Engel (1821-1896) published a study on the conditions of production and consumption in the Kingdom of Saxony [6], in which he formulated an empirical law concerning the relation between income and expenditure on food. Engel's law, as it has since become known, states that the proportion of income spent on food declines as income rises. Its original statement was mainly based on an examination of about two hundred budgets of Belgian laborers collected by Ducp6tiaux. Since that date the law has been found to hold in many other budget surveys; similar laws have also been formulated for other items of expenditture. With the formulation of Engel's law an important branch of econometrics took its start, though it was not until our days that consumption research was placed on a sound theoretical and statistical basis. It is proper that in this centennial year econometricians should pay tribute tzo one of their most illustrious precursors. His successful attempt to derive meaningful regularities from seemingly arbitrary observations will always be an inspiring example to the profession, the more so because in his day economic theory and statistical techniques were of little assistance in such an attempt. There can, I think, be no more fitting tribute to this enlightened empiricist than a further inquiry into the subject to which he devoted much of his life's work. There is no need to go into details of Engel's analysis and of the developments that preceded it, for these matters have recently been discussed in the scholarly article by Stigler [13]. It should be enough to note that Engel was mainly influenced by two of his older contemporaries. One was the French engineer Fred6ric Le Play, who had collected budgets from households all over Europe, mostly, it seems, from humanitarian interest. Engel had been Le Play's student at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. The other main influence was the Belgian statistician Qu6telet, who was a firm propoinent of the idea that human characteristics, at least in the average, were governed by laws as definiite as those which govern