  economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods, and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions. the topic includes business history, financial history and overlaps with areas of social history such as demographic history and labor history. quantitative (econometric) economic history is also referred to as cliometrics.robert whaples (2008). "cliometrics" in s. durlauf and l. blume, eds. the new palgrave dictionary of economics, 2nd ed. abstract. ==development as a separate field== treating economic history as a discrete academic discipline has been a contentious issue for many years. academics at the london school of economics and the university of cambridge had numerous disputes over the separation of economics and economic history in the interwar era. cambridge economists believed that pure economics involved a component of economic history and that the two were inseparably entangled. those at the lse believed that economic history warranted its own courses, research agenda and academic chair separated from mainstream economics. in the initial period of the subject's development, the lse position of separating economic history from economics won out. many universities in the uk developed independent programmes in economic history rooted in the lse model. indeed, the economic history society had its inauguration at lse in 1926 and the university of cambridge eventually established its own economic history programme. however, the past twenty years have witnessed the widespread closure of these separate programmes in the uk and the integration of the discipline into either history or economics departments. only the lse, the university of glasgow and the university of edinburgh retain separate economic history departments and stand-alone undergraduate and graduate programmes in economic history. the lse, glasgow and the university of oxford together train the vast majority of economic historians coming through the british higher education system. in the us, economic history has for a long time been regarded as a form of applied economics. as a consequence, there are no specialist economic history graduate programs at any mainstream university anywhere in the country. instead economic history is taught as a special field compon
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