Re: Anti-Quatitative History a Reaction to Fogel

From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 12 1997 - 11:34:26 MDT


Damien Broderick writes:
>At 10:42 AM 4/11/97 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
>
>>I'm under the impression that [...] now it's very
>>trendy to do stats work in history. It has a buzzword that I've forgotten
>
>Cliometrics.

Cliometrics is not trendy!? What evidence is there for this. Can
either of you name any person with such a specialty who was hired at a
major university history dept lately?

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/



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