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William McNeill reviews David S. Landes's book in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books (April 23, 1998, pp. 37-39). McNeill describes the book as a "magnificent, yet limited, masterwork." It might also be of interest to us that McNeill cites Landes' description of cliometricians as historians "'whose heroic exercise of imagination and ingenuity' creates statistical models that lend entirely fictitious precision to error and often lead to a conclusion that 'beggars credulity.'"

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