| Description |
vi, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
History of political economy ; annual supplement to v. 33
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History of political economy. Annual supplement ; 2001.
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| Contents |
Reader's essential non-guide to the age of economic measurement / Judy L. Klein and Mary S. Morgan -- Economics and the history of measurement / Theodore M. Porter -- A.F.W. Crome's measurements of the strength of the state / Sybilla Nikolow -- Make a righteous number / Bradley W. Bateman -- March to numbers / Franck Jovanovic and Philippe Le Gall -- Reflections from the age of economic measurement / Judy L. Klein -- Measuring causes / Kevin D. Hoover and Michael E. Dowell -- Quantity theory and needs-of-trade measurements and indicators for monetary policymakers in the 1920s / Thomas M. Humphrey -- Leontief and the U.S. bureau of labor statistics, 1941-54 / Martin C. Kohli -- Richard Stone and measurement criteria for national accounts / Flavio Comim -- Making measuring instruments / Mary S. Morgan -- Facts carefully marshalled in the empirical studies of William Stanley Jevons / Sandra J. Peart -- Instrument can make a science / Harro Maas -- Measurement, and changing images of mathematical knowledge / E. Roy Weintraub -- Fisher's instrumental approach to index numbers / Marcel Boumans -- Quantifying the qualitative / H. Spencer Banzhaf. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Economics -- Statistical methods.
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Economics, Mathematical.
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| Added Author |
Klein, Judy L., 1951-
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Morgan, Mary S.
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| ISBN |
0822365170 |
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