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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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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (4): 607–651.
Published: 01 November 1999
.... 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...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (4): 771–772.
Published: 01 November 1999
...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...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (1): 154.
Published: 01 March 1977
..., 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...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (3): 511–527.
Published: 01 September 2007
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (2): 324–325.
Published: 01 June 2007
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 53–80.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Jeff Biddle Statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions from samples of statistical data about things not fully described or recorded in those samples. During the 1920s, economists in the United States articulated a general approach to statistical inference that downplayed the value...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Laetitia Lenel The article investigates the methods and conceptions of statistical inference used in business forecasting in the United States and in Europe in the 1920s. After presenting the methods and arguments used by the members of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research in the first years...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 27–52.
Published: 01 December 2021
... theories. Instead, he drew inferences from statistics in case studies to argue that no special economic theory was required in the development space. He packaged these studies as statistical parables to provoke skepticism of development theory among those involved in direct technical assistance...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... a Survey of Journal Articles .” In From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism , edited by Morgan Mary S. Rutherford Malcolm . History of Political Economy 30 (supplement) : 85 – 107 . Biddle Jeff E. 1999 . “ Statistical Economics, 1900–1950 .” History of Political Economy 31...
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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 (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 25–70.
Published: 01 December 2000
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (Suppl_1): 23–56.
Published: 01 December 2001
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (Suppl_1): 86–110.
Published: 01 December 2001
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Juan Carvajalino; Thomas Michael Mueller Abstract During the early 1920s, a scattered group of American scholars, among whom were Harold Hotelling and E. B. Wilson, started a joint effort to develop statistical instruments in economics. They became interested in disparate topics...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 59–84.
Published: 01 December 2020
... & 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...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 1990
.... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2012
...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...
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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 11540206.
Published: 25 September 2024
... variations. The goal of this article is to explore this debate and its underpinnings. It is argued that the main points of contention between them relate to their conflicting perspectives on the nature of index numbers. ADVANCE PUBLICATION A Problem as Much of Economic Theory as of Statistical Technique...
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