Cliometrics as economics imperialism : across the watershed

"In Cliometrics as Economics Imperialism, Ben Fine traces the cliometric revolution, from before its emergence through three phases of the new, the newer and the newest economic history. These phases are shown to correspond to those of "economics imperialism", the colonisation of topics and fields by mainstream economics, moving successively through as if they are perfectly working markets imperfectly working markets, and these combined plus arbitrary inclusion of other variables"--