Cliometric Society
The Cliometric Society is a learned society, established in 1983, whose aim is to advance scholarship in the area of Cliometrics, emphasising both methodology and practice. The Society is a not-for-profit corporation and has its offices at the Economics department in the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The Society is affiliated to the International Economic History Association and has, with other learned societies, supported six World Congresses of Cliometrics.[1]
The Clio Can
The Society gives out an award, the Clio Can for Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics. Previous Clio Can award winners include:
- Lee J. Alston, Jeremy Atack, Lance E. Davis, Stanley Engerman, Price V. Fishback, Claudia Goldin, George Grantham, Charles Knickerbocker Harley, Naomi Lamoreaux, Donald McCloskey, Joel Mokyr, Richard H. Steckel, Richard Sutch, Richard Sylla, Thomas J. Weiss, Gavin Wright[2]
Fellows
The Society honors scholarship that has been found to be markedly original and have significantly advanced the frontiers of knowledgein economic history through its election of Fellows of the Society. Fellows elected to date include:
- 2012: Jeremy Atack, Price V. Fishback, Deidre McCloskey, Robert Margo and Rick Steckel
- 2011: Fred Bateman and Thomas J. Weiss
- 2010: Gavin Wright, Jeff Williamson, Peter Temin, Alan Olmsted, Joel Mokyr, Douglass North, Larry Neal, Hugh Rockoff, Claudia Goldin, Robert Fogel, Stanley Engerman and Lance E. Davis
References
- ↑ The Cliometrics Society:About the Cliometric Society (Accessed Dec 2011)
- ↑ The Cliometrics Society:Awards