Introduction to the Symposium on cliometrics.

This paper argues that we cliometricians have failed as economists, because we did not drag the profession out of the nineteenth century and into the

This comment argues for a more optimistic view of economic history based on a review of recent developments in the discipline, as well as Fenoaltea’s

The article is an introduction to the Symposium on “Happiness, Well-Being and (De)Growth”, based on an international conference held at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino,

Well-being research is burgeoning. But there is no agreement on which measure of well-being is to be preferred, nor in which circumstances. We here briefly

Review article.

Review article.

Has Cliometrics failed? In response to Stefano Fenoaltea’s melancholic assessment of the failures of the Cliometric School, this short comment notices the practical absence of

I agree with Stefano. On all the three facets of cliometricians’ activity – economics, history, and economic history – we can spot the sign of

Stefano Fenoaltea (2019) bemoans the loss of respect and focus on the importance of creating databases, or “measurement” as he refers to it. Cliometrics has