Book ID: CBB000100034

The age of economic measurement (2001)

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Klein, Judy L. (Editor)
Morgan, Mary S. (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: vi + 397 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Judy L. Klein; Mary S. Morgan: Reader's essential non-guide to the age of economic measurement. Theodore M. Porter: Economics and the history of measurement. Sybilla Nikolow: A.F.W. Crome's measurements of the strength of the state. Bradley W. Bateman: Make a righteous number. Franck Jovanovic; Philippe Le Gall: March to numbers. Judy L. Klein: Reflections from the age of economic measurement. Kevin D. Hoover; Michael E. Dowell: Measuring causes. Thomas M. Humphrey: Quantity theory and needs-of-trade measurements and indicators for monetary policymakers in the 1920s. Martin C. Kohli: Leontief and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54. Flavio Comim: Richard Stone and measurement criteria for national accounts. Mary S. Morgan: Making measuring instruments. Sandra J. Peart: Facts carefully marshalled in the empirical studies of William Stanley Jevons. Harro Maas: Instrument can make a science. E. Roy Weintraub: Measurement, and changing images of mathematical knowledge. Marcel Boumans: Fisher's instrumental approach to index numbers. H. Spencer Banzhaf: Quantifying the qualitative.


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Authors & Contributors
Maas, Harro
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Erling Haagensen
Simon Frost
Niels C. Lind
Ling, Biying
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Oxford University Press
Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie
Cambridge University Press
University of Chicago
Concepts
Quantification
Measurement
Economics
Measuring instruments
Science and society
Scientific apparatus and instruments
People
Jevons, William Stanley
Naville, François-Marc-Louis
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Medieval
Places
Netherlands
England
United States
Europe
Geneva (Switzerland)
Great Britain
Institutions
Convention du mètre (1875)
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