HIST 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robert Fogel, Cliometrics, Fecundity
19 Feb 2016
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Mon jan 25: primary sources: numeric sources and quantitative. The rise of computers in history: since 60s/70s, it was only economic historians who were specialized in data research; interested in the distribution of resources, large scale data projects; populations, etc. Using empirical methods to conduct as mass survey: by focusing on quantifications and numerical studies, historians were losing the narrative quality of history; context is lost, pcs made computers more accessible, cliometrics: a branch of eco. History analyzing a precise variable to produce a model of the world as it existed statistically. Robert fogel: model of what the us would have looked like w/o the railway in order to evaluate the role of the railway in us economy: 1900: survey of children under 14 who were employed none in. 1940 = political context changed i. e. , laws changed: reconstruction of a population using qualitative data.
