Goldin, Claudia2017-03-081995Goldin, Claudia. 1995. “Cliometrics and the Nobel.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (2) (May): 191–208. doi:10.1257/jep.9.2.191.0895-3309http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:30703876In October 1993, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert William Fogel and Douglass Cecil North `for having renewed research in economic history.' The Academy noted that `they were pioneers in the branch of economic history that has been called the þnew economic history,þ or þcliometricsþ.' In this paper I address what this cliometrics is and how these two Nobel Prize winners furthered the discipline of economics.en-USJournal Article2017-03-0810.1257/jep.9.2.191