Pronounced: HET-uhr-uh-klite, noun/adj
Notes: A nice word to start using
Yesterday’s word
The word cliometrics is “the application of methods developed in other fields (such as economics, statistics, and data processing) to the study of history”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
The American economists Douglass North and Robert Fogel developed cliometrics; in 1993, they won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work. If you know and remember Greek mythology, Clio is the name of the Greek Muse of history.
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