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A study co-authored by a CU Boulder economist reveals how young wives played a significant role in financially kick-starting their families during the economic prosperity of the 1950s, also opening ...

This special issue is composed of four papers which are diverse in topic. The first paper deals with elucidating the links between cliometrics and complexity. Cliometrics has very interesting ...

He is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Fellow of the Cliometrics Society and of the Economic History Association, and a former editor of the Journal of ...

Douglass Cecil North was an American economist known for his study of economic history. He is regarded as having popularised the field of cliometrics, or new economic history, and served as a ...

This paper studies the long-term effects of technology and know-how transfers on structural transformations. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union supported the construction of the 156 Projects, which were ...

The US home ownership rate rose by 10 percentage points between 1940 and 1945, about half the size of the net change over the 20th century, despite severe restrictions on construction during World War ...

Essentially, it was a criticism of the methodology of the New Economic History, or cliometrics, of which Conrad and Meyer (1958a) was the breakthrough application, on the topic of the profitability of ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New ...