The age of economic measurement /
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2001
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| Series: | History of Political Economy
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The reader's essential non-guide to The Age of Economic Measurement. 2. Economics and the history of measurement. 3. A.F.W. Crome's measurement of the "Strength of the State": statistical representations in Central Europe around 1800. 4. Make a righteous number : social surveys, the men and religion forward movement, and quantification in american economics. 5. march to numbers : the statistical style of Lucien March. 6. Reflections from the Age of Economic Measurement. 7. Measuring causes : episodes in the quantitative assessment of the value of money. 8. Quantity theory and needs-of-trade measurement and indicators for monetary policymakers in the 1920s. 9. Leontief and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54 : developing a framework for measurement. 10. Richard Stone and measurement criteria for national accounts. 11. Making measuring instruments. 12. "Facts carefully marshalled" in the empirical studies of William Stanley Jevons. 13. An instrument can make a science : Jevons's balancing acts in economics. 14. Measurement, and changing images of mathematical knowledge. 15. Fisher's instrumental approach to index numbers. 16. Quantifying the qualitative : quality-adjusted price indexes in the United States, 1915-61.