Measurement, quantification, and economic analysis : numeracy in economics /

Most economists assume that the mathematical and quantative sides of their science are relatively recent developments. Measurement, Quantification and Economic Analysis shows that this is a misconception. Its authors argue that economists have long relied on measurement and quantification as essenti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rima, Ingrid Hahne, 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Temas:
Economics, Mathematical.
Econometrics.
Économétrie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Econometrics
Economics, Mathematical
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 From political arithmetic to game theory
  • An introduction to measurement and quantification in economics / Ingrid H. Rima
  • chapter 2 I have no great faith in political arithmetick
  • Adam Smith and quantitative political economy / Robert W. Dimand
  • chapter 3 Ordering society
  • The early uses of classification in the British statistical organizations / James P. Henderson
  • chapter 4 Measurement in utility calculations
  • The utilitarian perspective / Sandra J. Peart
  • chapter 5 Institutional origins of econometrics
  • Nineteenth-century business practices / Judy L. Klein
  • chapter 6 The method of diagrams and the black arts of Inductive economics / Judy L. Klein
  • chapter 7 Jevons versus Cairnes on exact economic laws / Jinbang Kim
  • chapter 8 A reconstruction of Henry L. Moore's demand studies / Nancy J. Wulwick
  • chapter 9 The probability approach to index number theory
  • Prelude to macroeconomics / Robert E. Prasch
  • chapter 10 The indicator approach to monitoring business fluctuations:
  • A case study in dynamic statistical methods / Philip A. Klein
  • chapter 11 The delayed emergence of econometrics as a separate discipline / S. Ambirajan
  • chapter 12 Some conundrums about the place of econometrics in economic analysis / Ingrid H. Rima
  • chapter 13 The right person, in the right place, at the right time
  • How mathematical expectations came into macroeconomics / Bradley W. Bateman
  • chapter 14 The New Classical macroeconomics
  • A case study in the evolution of economic analysis / Sherryl D. Kasper
  • chapter 15 Experimenting with neoclassical economics
  • A critical review of experimental economics / Shaun Hargreaves Heap
  • chapter 16 The Carnot engine and the working day / Murray Wolfson
  • chapter 17 The problem of interpersonal interaction: Pareto's approach / Vincent J. Tarascio
  • chapter 18 Is emotive theory the philosopher's stone of the ordinalist revolution? / John B. Davis
  • chapter 19 If empirical work in economics is not severe testing, what is it? / Robert S. Goldfarb
  • chapter 20 Econometrics and the facts of experience / John Smithin
  • chapter 21 Simultaneous economic behavior under conditions of ignorance and historical time / Donald W. Katzner
  • chapter 22 Liapounov techniques in economic dynamics and classical thermodynamics
  • A comparison / Randall Bausor
  • chapter 23 The Hamiltonian formalism and optimal growth theory / Nancy J. Wulwick
  • chapter 24 The impact of John von Neumann's method / M.H.I. Dore.

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