cliometrics

When I was an undergrad I discovered blogs about peak oil, the limits to the growth, and Turchin’s cliometrics.

Seconded; also +1 for any mention of cliometrics, anywhere, ever.

The final evidence is given in the study of Cliometrics and measuring average body height of nations (an indicator for health/ prosperity): it used to be (up until the 1950s) that U.

If you would like resources which discuss and critique the various flaws of Piketty's work, I can refer you to the scholarly publications and the conferences associated with the American Economic Association, the Economic History Association, the Economic History Society, the Cliometrics Society, and like academic organizations, as starting points.

This is also one of the "big ideas" in the book _Eifelheim_, under the name "cliometrics".

The term "cliodynamics" comes from "cliometrics" (after the Greek god of history, Clio), which was a term invented in the 60s to describe the quantitative study of history (typically, economic history).

PS: It took me 2hours to remember the word Cliometrics.

This is mostly because their technology skills are (by and large) very nearly nil - "cliometrics" in History, and "digital humanities" in English, are regarded as niche - so nearly everyone with influence within the profession has been blind-sided.

This is also one of the "big ideas" in the book _Eifelheim_, under the name "cliometrics".

The term "cliodynamics" comes from "cliometrics" (after the Greek god of history, Clio), which was a term invented in the 60s to describe the quantitative study of history (typically, economic history).

This is mostly because their technology skills are (by and large) very nearly nil - "cliometrics" in History, and "digital humanities" in English, are regarded as niche - so nearly everyone with influence within the profession has been blind-sided.

PS: It took me 2hours to remember the word Cliometrics.