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Book Synopsis Political Arithmetic by : Robert William Fogel
Download or read book Political Arithmetic written by Robert William Fogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand the ever more complicated modern economy. With Political Arithmetic, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Fogel and his collaborators tell the story of economist Simon Kuznets, the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the creation of the concept of GNP, which for the first time enabled us to measure the performance of entire economies. The book weaves together the many strands of political and economic thought and historical pressures that together created the demand for more detailed economic thinking—Progressive-era hopes for activist government, the production demands of World War I, Herbert Hoover’s interest in business cycles as President Harding’s commerce secretary, and the catastrophic economic failures of the Great Depression—and shows how, through trial and error, measurement and analysis, economists such as Kuznets rose to the occasion and in the process built a discipline whose knowledge could be put to practical use in everyday decision-making. The product of a lifetime of studying the workings of economies and skillfully employing the tools of economics, Political Arithmetic is simultaneously a history of a key period of economic thought and a testament to the power of applied ideas.
Book Synopsis Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic written by Sir William Petty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book William Petty written by Ted McCormick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Petty (1623-1687) was a key figure in the English colonization of Ireland, the institutionalization of experimental natural philosophy, and the creation of social science. Examining Petty's intellectual development and his invention of 'political arithmetic' against the backdrop of the European scientific revolution and the political upheavals of Interregnum and Restoration England and Ireland, this book provides the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Petty based on a thorough examination not only of printed sources but also of Petty's extensive archive and pattern of manuscript circulation. It is also the first fully contextualized study of what political arithmetic - widely seen as an ancestor of modern social and economic analysis - was originally intended to do. Ted McCormick traces Petty's education among French Jesuits and Dutch Cartesians, his early work with the 'Hartlib Circle' of Baconian natural philosophers, inventors, and reformers in England, his involvement in the Cromwellian conquest and settlement of Ireland, and his engagement with both science and the politics of religion in the Restoration. He argues that Petty's crowning achivement, political arithmetic, was less a new way of analysing economy or society than a new 'instrument of government' that applied elements of the new science - a mechanical worldview, a corpuscularian theory of matter, and a Baconian stress on empirical method and the transformative purposes of natural philosophy - to the creation of industrious and loyal populations. Finally, he examines the transformation Petty's program of social engineering, after his death, into an apparently apolitical form of statistical reasoning.
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetic by : Arthur Young
Download or read book Political Arithmetic written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetick by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Political Arithmetick written by Sir William Petty and published by . This book was released on 1690 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetick by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Political Arithmetick written by Sir William Petty and published by . This book was released on 1691 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Math by : Christopher J. Phillips
Download or read book The New Math written by Christopher J. Phillips and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. This book examines the rise and fall of the new math as a marker of the period's political and social ferment.
Book Synopsis The Power of a Single Number by : Philipp Lepenies
Download or read book The Power of a Single Number written by Philipp Lepenies and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance in our political culture. In The Power of a Single Number, Philipp Lepenies recounts the lively history of GDP's political acceptance—and eventual dominance. Locating the origins of GDP measurements in Renaissance England, Lepenies explores the social and political factors that originally hindered its use. It was not until the early 1900s that an ingenuous lone-wolf economist revived and honed GDP's statistical approach. These ideas were then extended by John Maynard Keynes, and a more focused study of national income was born. American economists furthered this work by emphasizing GDP's ties to social well-being, setting the stage for its ascent. GDP finally achieved its singular status during World War II, assuming the importance it retains today. Lepenies's absorbing account helps us understand the personalities and popular events that propelled GDP to supremacy and clarifies current debates over the wisdom of the number's rule.
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetic by : Robert William Fogel
Download or read book Political Arithmetic written by Robert William Fogel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand the ever more complicated modern economy. With Political Arithmetic, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Fogel and his collaborators tell the story of economist Simon Kuznets, the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the creation of the concept of GNP, which for the first time enabled us to measure the performance of entire economies. The book weaves together the many strands of political and economic thought and historical pressures that together created the demand for more detailed economic thinking—Progressive-era hopes for activist government, the production demands of World War I, Herbert Hoover’s interest in business cycles as President Harding’s commerce secretary, and the catastrophic economic failures of the Great Depression—and shows how, through trial and error, measurement and analysis, economists such as Kuznets rose to the occasion and in the process built a discipline whose knowledge could be put to practical use in everyday decision-making. The product of a lifetime of studying the workings of economies and skillfully employing the tools of economics, Political Arithmetic is simultaneously a history of a key period of economic thought and a testament to the power of applied ideas.
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetic by : Lancelot Hogben
Download or read book Political Arithmetic written by Lancelot Hogben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing the areas of economics, sociology, social biology and genetics, and drawing on studies from the UK and Australia, this volume charts and analyses the factors affecting population growth. Chapters include: * The international decline in fertility * The changing structure of the family * Educational opportunities * Concepts of race.
Book Synopsis Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic written by Sir William Petty and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetic by : Lancelot Hogben
Download or read book Political Arithmetic written by Lancelot Hogben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing the areas of economics, sociology, social biology and genetics, and drawing on studies from the UK and Australia, this volume charts and analyses the factors affecting population growth. Chapters include: * The international decline in fertility * The changing structure of the family * Educational opportunities * Concepts of race.
Book Synopsis Several Essays in Political Arithmetick by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Several Essays in Political Arithmetick written by Sir William Petty and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Series of essays first published in 1687, focusing on the economics, population, growth and development of London, compared to other cities, including Dublin, Paris, and Rome, in terms of various vital statistics.
Book Synopsis Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic written by Sir William Petty and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic" by Sir William Petty Sir William Petty was an English economist, physician, scientist, and philosopher. In this book, he looks at different historical moments in London's society to see how the city and the people who live there have changed over time. Ton, how this represents global population growth, how religion impacted society, the plagues of London, and more are all examined in great detail.
Book Synopsis Political Arithmetic by : Arth Young
Download or read book Political Arithmetic written by Arth Young and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mankind and Political Arithmetic by : Sir William Petty
Download or read book Mankind and Political Arithmetic written by Sir William Petty and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal points of this discourse Of the growth of the city of London Further observation upon the Dublin bills The stationer to the reader A postscript to the stationer Two essays in political arithmetic To the king's most excellent majesty An essay in political arithmetic Five essays in political arithmetic The first essay The second essay The third essay. The fourth essay The fifth essay Of the people of England (by Gregory King)
Download or read book Numbers Rule written by George Szpiro and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems, such as the Alabama Paradox, in which an increase in the number of seats in the Congress could actually lead to a reduced number of representatives for a state, and the Condorcet Paradox, which demonstrates that the winner of elections featuring more than two candidates does not necessarily reflect majority preferences. Szpiro takes a roughly chronological approach to the topic, traveling from ancient Greece to the present and, in addition to offering explanations of the various mathematical conundrums of elections and voting, also offers biographical details on the mathematicians and other thinkers who thought about them, including Plato, Pliny the Younger, Pierre Simon Laplace, Thomas Jefferson, John von Neumann, and Kenneth Arrow.
