...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...

... of Economic Thought 8 : 332 -62. ———. 2001b . March to Numbers: The Statistical Style of Lucien March. In The Age of Economic Measurement, edited by Judy L. Klein and Mary S. Morgan. HOPE 33 (supplement): 86 -110. ———. 2002 . Genèse et nature de la Théorie de la spéculation: Les...

...Emmanuel Didier What does it mean for a small bunch of civil service statisticians to observe something as huge as the whole American agriculture? What are the eyes that can see this? We answer this question focusing on the actual practice of statistical observation at the beginning...

...Judy L. Klein Duke University Press 2000 Arrow, Kenneth J. 1957 . Statistics and Economic Policy. Econometrica 25.4 : 523 -31. ____. 1958 . Utilities, Attitudes, Choices: A Review Note. Econometrica 26.1 : 1 -23. AT&T. 1989 . A History of Quality Control and Assurance...

... Bevölkerung, der Staats-Einkünfte und der bewaffneten Macht . Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer dem Jüngeren. ____. 1819 . A Map of the Statistical Relations of Europe Serving as a View and Comparison of the Extent of Surface,Population, and Other Public Revenue of All States of Europe . London: Engraved...

... of Economic Thought 8.3. Forthcoming. Klein, Judy L. 1997 . Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 1662-1938 . Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. Kurita, Keiko. 1989 . La penséeéconomique des ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées dans la période de l'industrialisation...

...Martin C. Kohli Correspondence may be addressed to Martin Kohli, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 201 Varick Street, Room 808, New York, NY 10014. Duke University Press 2001 Battelle Memorial Institute. 1973 . Interactions of Science and Technology in the Innovative Process:Some...

...Claude Ménard History of Political Economy 12:4 0 1980 by Duke University Press Three forms of resistance to statistics: Say, Cournot, Walras Claude Me‘nard, Universite de Paris (Panthkon-Sorbonne...

...Geoffrey M. Hodgson Schumpeter’s Evolutionary Economics: A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Engine of Capitalism . By Andersen Esben Sloth . London : Anthem , 2009 . 493 pp. $175.00 (hardback); $50.00 (paperback) . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press...

... Holt. Frickey , Edwin. 1942 . Economic Fluctuations in the United States: A Systematic Analysis of Long Run Trends and Business Cycles 1866–1914 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Frisch , Ragnar. 1927 . The Analysis of Statistical Time Series . Oslo University. Mimeographed...

.... Quarterly Journal of Economics 36 : 545 -80. Ayres , L. 1927 . The Dilemma of the New Statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association 22 : 1 -8. Bean , L. H. 1929 . The Farmer's Response to Price. Journal of Farm Economics 11 : 368 -85. Bence-Jones , H. 1900...

...Esther-Mirjam Sent Judy L. Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 366 pp. $64.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Book Reviews Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662-1938. By Judy L. Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

..., Induction and Statistical Znference. By Ian Hacking. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 209. $15.95. In nineteen brief chapters, Hacking explores the development of our mod- ern conceptions of probability and induction in the context of fifteenth- through...

...David Teira Anderson, T. W., and M. Friedman. 1960 . A Limitation of the Optimum Property of the Sequential Probability Ratio Test. In Contributions to Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of Harold Hotelling , edited by I. Olkin et al., 57 -69. Stanford: Stanford University Press...

... was successful in a series of auctions at Downing Street at which government debt was allocated, and he needed a detailed knowledge to be suc- cessful in these. Series of statistics infl uenced bidding at these auctions, and Davis suggests that tax receipts by the government were especially important...

...H. Spencer Banzhaf The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880–2000 . By Stapleford Thomas A. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xiii ; 440 pp. $31.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews The Cost...

... & Telegraph. I argue that distinct structural features of telephone engineering in general, and AT&T in particular, created overlaps between the practices of engineering and economics, and also opened space for Rorty to craft a broader vision for the “statistical control of business” through...

.... Lawrence University JEFFREY T. YOUNG The probabilistic revolution. Edited by Lorenz Kriiger, Lorraine Daston, Mi- chael Heidelberger, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Mary Morgan. 2 vols. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987. 449, 459 pp. The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900...

...Mária Hidvégi This article offers a case study about the importance of Staatenkunde (descriptive statistics) for Cameralism and the development of economic thought in Hungary, a country that has been rarely included into political economic studies about Cameralism. It aims at showing how...

...Mary S. Morgan This article investigates the role played by narrative in drawing inferences from statistics before the adoption of formal inference regimes in economics. Two well-known, and exemplary, cases of informal inference provide the materials. Nikolai Kondratiev’s struggles to make...