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The 1960s witnessed a revolutionary change in economic history to such anextent that in less than ten years time the discipline was hardly recognizablethereafter. The essentially literarydescriptive method that had characterizedeconomic history since its very beginnings in the second half of the 19thcentury gave way to rigorous quantitative testing of mathematically formulatedhypotheses and as a result a host of formerly generally accepted ideassuddenly and quite unexpectedly lost their credibility in academic circles.Although the revisions that were the result of this so called cliometricrevolution had a major impact on our ideas on economic development thismethodological revolution remained almost unnoticed outside the realms ofacademic economic history the reason for this being the nature of therevolution itself. Suddenly economic historical articles in professionaljournals became more or less unintelligible for the interested layman as theywere cast in a language that was directly derived from highly specializedfields of study such as neoclassical economic theory and econometrics. Therevolution that bit its own tail explains in terms understandable for nonspecialist readers what was essential in the cliometric revolution and in whatways it changed our ideas on economic development. The book addresses itself inthe first place to students in history and economics but is also anindispensable guide for everyone who is engaged in what is one of todays mostpressing problems The increasing inequality in wealth between rich and poorcountries or stated in more formal terms the explanation of economic growthstagnation and decline. «
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