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Fortune Tellers : The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of ec...
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Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Roger W. Babson: The Rule of Past Patterns; Chapter 2: Irving Fisher: The Economy as a Mathematical Model; Chapter 3: John Moody: The Bright Light of Transparency; Gallery of Business and Forecasting Charts; Chapter 4: C.J. Bullock and Warren Persons: The Harvard ABC Chart; Chapter 5: Wesley Mitchell and Herbert Hoover: Forecasting as Policy; Chapter 6: Visions of the Future; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index. | |
| 520 | |a The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C.J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to pr. | ||
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