In eight case studies by leading scholars in history, archaeology, business, economics, geography, and political science, the authors showcase the “natural experiment” or “comparative method”—well-known in any science concerned with the past—on the discipline of human history. That means, according to the editors, “comparing, preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses, different systems that are similar in many respects, but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.” The case studies in the book support two overall conclusions about the study of human history: First, historical comparisons have the potential for yielding insights that cannot be extracted from a single case study alone. Second, insofar as is possible, when one proposes a conclusion, one may be able to strengthen one’s conclusion by gathering quantitative evidence (or at least ranking one’s outcomes from big to small), and then by testing the conclusion’s validity statistically.
In the earlier book, he spent a chapter looking at the Polynesian expansion as a near-perfect natural experiment in which a single ancestral Polynesian culture migrated to hundreds of islands in the Pacific Ocean, each with its own ...
The first comprehensive guide to natural experiments, providing an ideal introduction for scholars and students.
3 (1968): 365; see also L. J. West and J. R. Allen, “Three Rebellions: Red, Black and Green,” in J. H. Masserman, ed., Science and Psychoanalysis (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1968), vol. 13. 18 Jill G. Morawski, ...
The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods.
EBM entails collaborative, landscape-scale planning and flexible, adaptive implementation.
Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field.
The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Gerd B. Müller, Günter P. Wagner, and Werner Callebaut, editors The Evolution of Cognition, edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber, 2000 Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in ...
Robin Pearson, “The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on EighteenthCentury English Towns and Populations,” in Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment: Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies, ed.
The tradition of curiosity, experimentation, analysis is rarely a straight road, and you will not believe some of the incredible stories the Gribbins' pull from labs and workshops from around the world.
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