For 10 points, identify this discipline whose proponents include Nobelist Douglass C. North and the author of Timeon the Cross, Robert Fogel, the application of quantitative methods to economic history, named for the Muse ofhistory.
One major publication in this field distinguishes between formal and informal constraints and shows howinformal constraints have a large influence. McCloskey and Williamson founded a "society" devoted to thisdiscipline. Conrad and Meyer published a manifesto for methods to be used in this field, and its name wascoined by Stanley Reiter. Sokoloff and Engermann published an article in this field stating that institutionalstructures are less important than the (*) distribution of factors. A famous work in this field stated that largeplantations had the highest total factor productivity and argued that slavery was economically beneficial for blacks.For 10 points, identify this discipline whose proponents include Nobelist Douglass C. North and the author of Timeon the Cross, Robert Fogel, the application of quantitative methods to economic history, named for the Muse ofhistory.
One major publication in this field distinguishes between formal and informal constraints and shows howinformal constraints have a large influence.
cliometrics [or new economic history, prompt on partial answers, prompt on "history" or quantitative "history" or economic "history" or "historical economics"]