The Statistical Method in Economics and Political Science
Subtitle: a Treatise on the Quantitative and Institutional Approach to Social and Industrial Problems
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Econometrics
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781351133517
Subjects: Statistics; Economics; Political science; Économie politique
Notes: "Originally published in 1929. This balanced combination of fieldwork, statistical measurement, and realistic applications shows a synthesis of economics and political science in a conception of an organic relationship between the two sciences that involves functional analysis, institutional interpretation, and a more workmanlike approach to questions of organization such as division of labour and the control of industry. The treatise applies the test of fact through statistical analysis to economic and political theories for the quantitative and institutional approach in solving social and industrial problems. It constructs a framework of concepts, combining both economic and political theory, to systematically produce an original statement in general terms of the principles and methods for statistical fieldwork. The separation into Parts allows selective reading for the methods of statistical measurement; the principles and fallacies of applying these measures to economic and political fields; and the resultant construction of a statistical economics and politics. Basic statistical concepts are described for application, with each method of statistical measurement illustrated with instances relevant to the economic and political theory discussed and a statistical glossary is included."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; PART ONE: MOOD AND MATTER OF STATISCAL ENQUIRY; CHAPTER I:THE FUNCTION OF ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND STATISTICS; CHAPTER II: THE STATISTICAL METHOD SET FORTH; CHAPTER III: FOCUS AND SCOPE OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE; Â1 The Division of Labour in Social Research; Â2 Political and Exchange Economics; Â3 Scope of Political Economics as Administrative Science; Â4 The Scope and Importance of Economic Politics; CHAPTER IV: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL INTERRELATIONS.; title: Â1 Political, Economic, and Social BehaviourÂ2 Integral Action of the Social System; Â3 The Institutional Interpretation of Economics; Â4 The Economic Interpretation of Social Institutions; Â5 Summary and Thesis; PART TWO: THE STATISTICAL MEASUREMENT OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DATA; CHAPTER V: LANGUAGE AND TYPES OF STATISTICAL MEASUREMENT; Â1 Conditions of Statistical Measurement; Â2 Inaugural Conceptions and Vocabulary; Â3 Types of Statistically Measured Issues; Â4 Tabular and Graphic Presentation; Â5 A Summary and Review; CHAPTER VI: THE SUMMARY MEASUREMENT OF A SINGLE CHARACTER.; title: Â1 The Frequency of Qualities and the Distribution of QuantitiesÂ2 The Normal Distribution; Â3 Skew Distribution and the Problem of Averaging; Â4 The Prevalence of Skew Distributions; Â5 Bimodal and Discontinuous Distribution; Â6 The Beggary of Literary Summarization; Â7 Conflicting Summaries of Age at Death; CHAPTER VII: RISK AND UNCERTAINTY; Â1 Risks and their Frequency; Â2 A Reformed Terminology; Â3 The Statistical Estimate of Probabilities; Â4 Social Insurance and Business Risks; CHAPTER VIII: THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME AND SPACE TENDENCIES; Â1 The Summary of Item Price-Changes.; title: Â2 Tracing Specific TendenciesÂ3 Cyclical Fluctuation and Rhythm; Â4 The Trade Cycle; Â5 The Political Cycle; Â6 Localization and the Cycle of Town and Country; Â7 The Isolation of Secular Trend and Other Tendencies; Â8 The Probabilities of a Tendency; CHAPTER IX: THE MEASUREMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHARACTERS; Â1 The Vocabulary of Relation Measurement; Â2 Association Between Two Qualities of Two Characters; Â3 Relationship or Contingency between Several Qualities of Two Characters.; title: Â4 Relationship or Contingency between Several Qualities of One Character and Quantities of AnotherÂ5 Correlation and the Regression Line or Curve; Â6 Relationship between Values of Several Characters; Â7 The Probabilities of Relationship; PART THREE: STATISTICAL FIELDWORK IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE; CHAPTER X: STATISTICAL FIELDWORK IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE]; Â1 Selection and Definition of the Statistical Terms; Â2 Description by Index; Â3 Corrected and Composite Indices; Â4 Description by Sample; Â5 Tests of the Descriptiveness of Indices and Samples.