From Forrest McDonald’s Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir (University Press of Kansas, 2004), p. 119:
So enamored did historians become [after Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross appeared in 1974] with the riches to be mined through cliometrics that a generation experimented with the technique. Little of consequence was learned as a result, and happily, the profession largely abandoned the approach. Unfortunately, our sister discipline, political science, has become almost wholly converted to it.
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