cliometrics

****************************************************************
Attention word gurus:  try WORD SWEEP!, the first board game to feature =
Merriam-Webster definitions! Available at Borders Bookstores.
http://www.wordsweep.com
****************************************************************

The Word of the Day for January 8 is:=20

cliometrics   \klye-uh-MET-riks\   noun plural but singular in construct=
ion
          : the application of methods developed in other fields (as eco=
nomics, statistics, and data processing) to the study of history

Example sentence:
          For his doctoral thesis, Quentin used cliometrics to examine t=
he impact of universal suffrage on economic development.=20

Did you know?
          "Cliometrics" comes from a combination of "Clio," the name of =
the Greek Muse of history, and "-metrics," as in "econometrics" ("the ap=
plication of statistical methods to the study of economic data and probl=
ems") or "biometrics" ("the statistical analysis of biological observati=
ons and phenomena"). American economists Douglass North and Robert Fogel=
 developed cliometrics, a highly quantitative means for studying the pas=
t. In 1993, North and Fogel won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their p=
ioneering work.





You Are Subscribed As: [email protected]

To unsubscribe, please click here:
http://www.drhinternet.net/mw/u/966408/568f14b4ab4f050b/N414L6

To change your e-mail address or to subscribe to the html
version of Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day, featuring audio
pronunciations, please visit:
http://mw.drhinternet.net/sm/wod/changeofaddress.iphtml

(c) 2007 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

Merriam-Webster, Inc.
47 Federal Street
P.O. Box 281
Springfield, MA 01102