Contents

Editors’ Introduction to the Symposium on cliometrics

Introduction to the Symposium on cliometrics.

Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School

This paper argues that we cliometricians have failed as economists, because we did not drag the profession out of the...

See You in Valhalla: Comment on ‘Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School’, by Stefano Fenoaltea

This comment argues for a more optimistic view of economic history based on a review of recent developments in the...

Introductory note to the symposium on “Happiness, Well-Being and (De)Growth”

The article is an introduction to the Symposium on "Happiness, Well-Being and (De)Growth", based on an international conference held at...

One Size Fits All? Well-being, Measurement and Growth

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

Review of Mario Morroni, ‘What Is the Truth about the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality? Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories’, Cham: Springer, 2018

Review article.

Review of Matthew Evangelista (ed.), ‘Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security and Society in the 21st Century’, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018

Review article.

‘Pace’ Baudelaire? Comment on ‘Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School’, by Stefano Fenoaltea

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

Stefano’s Face: Comment on ‘Spleen: The Failures of the Cliometric School’, by Stefano Fenoaltea

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