cliometrics

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The Word of the Day for January 8 is: 

cliometrics   \klye-uh-MET-riks\   noun plural but singular in construction
          : the application of methods developed in other fields (as economics, 
statistics, and data processing) to the study of history

Example sentence:
          For his doctoral thesis, Quentin used cliometrics to examine the 
impact of universal suffrage on economic development. 

Did you know?
          "Cliometrics" comes from a combination of "Clio," the name of the 
Greek Muse of history, and "-metrics," as in "econometrics" ("the application 
of statistical methods to the study of economic data and problems") or 
"biometrics" ("the statistical analysis of biological observations and 
phenomena"). American economists Douglass North and Robert Fogel developed 
cliometrics, a highly quantitative means for studying the past. In 1993, North 
and Fogel won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their pioneering work.





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