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The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 57–88.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Walter A. Friedman The Harvard Economic Service pioneered the business of economic forecasting by publishing a weekly newsletter on economic conditions, starting in 1922. The Harvard forecasting model, developed by the statistician and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its...
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Searching for a Tide Table for Business: Interwar Conceptions of Statistical Inference in Business Forecasting
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174.
Published: 01 December 2021
... context in the history of economics. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 forecasting statistical inference business-cycle research Harvard Economic Service London and Cambridge Economic Service References Anderson Katharine . 2005...
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Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2015
...-1929 American economic or stock forecasters: Roger Bab-
son, Irving Fisher, John Moody, the Harvard Economic Service of Charles J. Bullock
and Warren Persons, and Wesley Mitchell. An earlier version of the chapter on the
Harvard Economic Society appeared in this journal in spring 2009...
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Business Forecasting and the Development of Business Cycle Theory
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (3): 481–510.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... 1952 . Business Forecasting: Principles and Practice . New York: McGraw-Hill. Persons, W. M. 1922 . Interpretation of the General Index of Business Conditions . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Economic Service. ____. 1924 . Interpretation of the Index of General Business Conditions . In Persons...
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Index
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 327–342.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., Sascha, 188 Bullock, Charles, 142, 147n2 Beveridge, William, 158 60, 163 forecasting, 150 53, 157, 161, Biddle, Jeff, 18 19, 176, 179, 181 82, 164 65 Harvard Committee on Economic 198, 260 Research, 142, 162 big data. See data revolution London and Cambridge Economic Big Push proposals, 33 Service, 157...
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Business and the Making of American Econometrics, 1910–1940
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 233–265.
Published: 01 June 2017
....” In Econometrics of Planning and Efficiency , edited by Sengupta Jati Kadekodi Gopal , 23 – 48 . Springer Science & Business Media . Friedman Walter A. 2009 . “The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting.” History of Political Economy 41 ( 1 ): 57 – 88...
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Economics in America: the Continental Influence
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History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (2): 173–182.
Published: 01 June 1987
... or to commissioned
government studies, there were other data-gathering research outfits that
profited from business support. The best-known of these was the Harvard
Economic Service organized by Charles J. Bullock and run by Warren
Persons-a business cycle research and forecasting concern that attracted...
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Engineering the “Statistical Control of Business”: Malcolm Rorty, Telephone Engineering, and American Economics, 1900–1930
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 59–84.
Published: 01 December 2020
... business barometers and forecasting services proliferated after the war (including the Harvard Economic Service), AT&T s monthly summary was the most elaborate internal analysis from a private corpora- tion.25 The summary was made possible both by the scale of AT&T (which allowed it to house such a large...
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Paul Ehrenfest and Jan Tinbergen: A Case of Limited Physics Transfer
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History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 131–156.
Published: 01 January 1993
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search and theory he encountered at the Dutch Central Bureau of Statis
tics (CBS), which had borrowed its methods from the Harvard Economic
Service and the Berlin Institut für Konjunkturforschung. Business-cycle
research at these institutions consisted of the construction of economic
barometers...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 165–176.
Published: 01 June 2017
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wonderful (2014) book, Fortune Tellers, that is all about businessmen and
their contributions to economics. If it was not for the success of Babson
and others, the Harvard Economic Service might not have been estab-
lished to pioneer the forecasting business (same for Irving Fisher). Busi-
ness cycle...
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Wassily Leontief's Research Program: Science, Beliefs, Institutions
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (4): 653–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...] .” American Economic Review 39 , no. 3 : 226–40. Friedman , Walter . 2009 . “ The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting .” History of Political Economy 41 , no. 1 : 57 – 88 . Friedman , Walter . 2013 . Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic...
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Allyn A. Young: a curious case of professional neglect
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 1983
... was graduate teaching. He was
on the faculty of the leading American graduate school of the day, Harvard
University. He acted as thesis director or adviser to a large number of
students who were to gain fame or noteworthiness in economics in later
years. His professional and public service was wide...
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Joseph S. Davis: “The Evolution of one Economist's Work”
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History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (2): 243–266.
Published: 01 June 1980
..., for the most part appearing in Re-
view of Economic Statistics and the Harvard Economic Service
Weekly Letter, Davis capitalized on his service on the Allied Maritime
Transport Council (1918-1919), on his work with Dwight W. Morrow
on their “Memorandum on the Economic and Financial Condition...
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The Making of Index Numbers in the Early 1920s: A Closer Look at the Fisher-Mitchell Debate
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 655–686.
Published: 01 August 2022
... as an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College and at Colorado College, until he became a professor at Harvard, where he edited the newly created Review of Economic Statistics and led the statistical compilation of the Harvard Economic Service (Foster 1939 : 412; Friedman 2014 : 9). He was known...
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Musgrave, Samuelson, and the Crystallization of the Standard Rationale for Public Goods
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (1): 59–92.
Published: 01 March 2017
... . Baumol William J. 1952 . Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . Benham F. C. 1934 . “Notes on the Pure Theory of Public Finance.” Economica 1 ( 4 ): 436 – 58 . Bergson Abram . 1938 . “A Reformulation of Certain...
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From Economic to Social Regulation: How the Deregulatory Moment Strengthened Economists’ Policy Position
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 187–212.
Published: 01 December 2017
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Harvard also had much stronger ties to the world of Washington than
did Chicago. During World War II, Mason had been one of the most
important economists in government, as head of the economics section of
the Of¥ce of Strategic Services’ Research and Analysis Branch (Katz
1989, chap. 4).3...
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Sun Yat-sen as a Pioneer of International Development
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 76–93.
Published: 01 December 2018
... World , edited by Cheng Chu-yuan , 11 – 51 . Boulder, Colo. : Westview . Schwartz Benjamin . 1964 . In Search of Wealth and Power . Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . Staley Eugene . 1944 . World Economic Development . Montreal...
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AT&T's Antigovernment Lesson-Drawing in the Political Economy of Networks, 1905–20
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (4): 673–708.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Express, reprinted in the Boston Herald, 1913 . ———. Item 165: Extract from The History of the British Post Office ( 1912 ), Harvard Economic Studies, by J. C. Hemmeon. ———. Item 166: Extract from La gestion par l'état et les municipalitiés (State and Municipal Management) ( 1913...
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H. D. Fong and the Study of Chinese Economic Development
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History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (4): 789–809.
Published: 01 November 2002
.... Nankai Social and Economic Quarterly 9.4 : 919 -1006. ____. 1939 . Industrialization for China's Southwest. China Quarterly 4.2 : 299 -306. ____. 1942a . Economic Reconstruction in Wartime China. Harvard Business Review 20.4 : 415 -26. ____. 1942b . The Postwar Industrialization...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (suppl_1): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Donald . 1977 . The Economic Advisory Council, 1930-1939: A Study in Economic Advice during Depression and Recovery . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Igo Sarah Elizabeth . 2007 . The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public . Cambridge : Harvard...
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