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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 June 1985
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The functions of numerical data in the writings of
Graunt , Petty, and Davenant
A. M.Endres
I. Introduction
This is a study of the functions of numerical data...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 258–282.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Ariane Dupont-Kieffer; Alain Pirotte This essay focuses on the early years of panel data econometrics and two seminal papers by Yair Mundlak ( 1961 ) and Pietro Balestra and Marc Nerlove ( 1966 ). The issue of latent individual heterogeneity was identified as a central problem. One main ambition...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (suppl_1): 160–182.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Thomas A. Stapleford This essay examines the evolution of data-collection practices in American expenditure surveys over much of the twentieth century. Economists conducting expenditure surveys faced one fundamental concern: their success hinged on the cooperation of interviewees (typically...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (3): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2006
... 15 ( September ): 78 -80. ____. 1927b . Need We Be Afraid of a Job Famine? Nation's Business 15 ( January ): 22 -24. New Data, New Issues: The Origins of
the Technological Unemployment Debates
Gregory R. Woirol
New economic data sets are not created by accident. Because...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 175–203.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Thomas A. Stapleford This article explores the recent history of the data revolution in economics, arguing that many of its features parallel the vision for statistical economics championed by Wesley Mitchell during the interwar period. Seeing the data revolution as kin to Mitchell’s hopes...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1. Three-dimensional “production relation” over 1860–2017. Source : Data derived from sources described in Hendry 2001 .
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in “Marco Polo Economics” and Narrative in the NBER Soviet Growth Study
> History of Political Economy
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1. Data flow diagram, pre-1957, reproduced from Grossman 1960 : 37. Diagram shows the flow of statistical data until mid-1957.
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in “Marco Polo Economics” and Narrative in the NBER Soviet Growth Study
> History of Political Economy
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 2. Data flow diagram, pre-1957, reproduced from Nutter 1962 : 20. Diagram shows the Soviet statistical system until mid-1957.
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 471–496.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Figure 1. Data flow diagram, pre-1957, reproduced from Grossman 1960 : 37. Diagram shows the flow of statistical data until mid-1957. ...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2021
...” over a twelve-year period. The article wonders how could the statistical fiction be validated by the IMF economists, and to what extent they took part in Mauritanian data production. The article argues that the auditorauditee relation places less importance on the veracity and the pertinence of numbers...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 188–210.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Aiko Ikeo In Japan the systematic collection of economic data, including the prices of such commodities as rice, started for policy purposes in the sixteenth century. Yet such external impacts as the Tokyo meeting of the International Statistical Institute (1930) and the visit of two founding...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (suppl_1): 226–249.
Published: 01 December 2012
... business cycle and DSGE models and to the use of shocks as generators of impulse-response functions, which are in turn used as data in matching estimators. The history is organized around the observability of shocks. As well as documenting a critical conceptual development in economics, the history...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 233–265.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of future demand, price and cost fluctuations, or financial markets—based on the analysis of statistical data. Forecasting united a suite of specific interactions with the practice of economics: business support for the construction of specific economic data (making possible new forms of econometric...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Roger E. Backhouse; Béatrice Cherrier It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 211–230.
Published: 01 December 2018
... in the quantifying of economic development and structural transformation: Simon Kuznets and Hollis Chenery. Kuznets brought the national income framework to bear on the process of growth and structural transformation in, primarily, more-developed countries, with data stretching back to the early phases...
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Models, Measurement, and “Universal Patterns”: Jan Tinbergen and Development Planning without Theory
History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 231–248.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Marcel Boumans; Neil De Marchi Development economics in the 1950s and 1960s, as Jan Tinbergen and Irma Adelman saw it, was a “groping in the dark.” Besides the limited knowledge of dynamic mechanisms, the lack of data was a severe problem for any attempt at modeling, whether macroeconomic, input...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 207–226.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Marcel Boumans This essay discusses Francis Galton’s method of inductive inference where the data are photographs of human faces. His aim of induction was to determine the typical characteristics of the natural class to which the individuals belong by composing the relevant photographs...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 259–292.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Amanar Akhabbar How to infer from uncontrolled data the numerical values of the parameters of an econometric model? In interwar econometrics, this problem of statistical induction was tackled in various ways. Wassily Leontief’s inter-industry method offers a case study of a nonprobabilistic...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 207–233.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marcel Boumans Abstract This article shows that Friedman's experiences with the research conducted at the Statistical Research Group (SRG) significantly shaped his 1953 methodology. These experiences gave him the ideas for a methodology for statistical analysis when dealing with “lousy data...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., was almost nonexistent until around 2010. A decade-by-decade comparison of men's and women's coauthorship networks suggests female-female networks in the most recent decade in our data (2010–19) roughly resemble male networks from earlier decades (1940–69) and highlight the key role prominent individuals...
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