"The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand."--Publisher's description

1. An historical outline of the two cliometric revolutions, highlighting the similarities and the differences between the two
2. A survey of the issues and the main results of the second cliometric revolution
3. A discussion of the innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in economics towards a more data-driven, empirical approach