Measurement, quantification and economic analysis: numeracy in economics
Most economists assume that the mathematical and quantitative sides of their science are relatively recent developments. Measurement, Quantification and Economic Analysis shows that this is a misconception. Economists have long relied on measurement and quantification as essential tools. What is rel...
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| Summary: | Most economists assume that the mathematical and quantitative sides of their science are relatively recent developments. Measurement, Quantification and Economic Analysis shows that this is a misconception. Economists have long relied on measurement and quantification as essential tools. What is relatively new is their emergence as essential elements in economic description and discussion. The editor contends that the predilection of contemporary economics for mathematical formalism, game theoretic experiments and econometric testing to confirm that aggregate behaviors generate optimizing outcomes marks the third stage in the development of measurement and quantification tools in economics. The papers that have been commissioned for this volume offer analyses of particular techniques and examine their impact on the development of numeracy in economics Each contribution stands alone but is also an integral part of the theme of numeracy in economics. Given the requirements for the progress of adaptation of these tools from other fields has become a source of problems. Ultimately there is skepticism about the dominating role of measurement and quantification tools in contemporary economic theory |
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List of figures vii
List of tables ix
List of contributors x i
1 From political arithmetic to game theory: an introduction to 1
measurement and quantification in economics
Ingrid H. Rima
2 I have no great faith in political arithmetick : Adam Smith 22
and quantitative political economy
Robert W. Dimand
3 Ordering society: the early uses of classification in the British 31
statistical organizations
James P. Henderson
4 Measurement in utility calculations: the utilitarian 63
perspective
Sandra J. Peart
5 Institutional origins of econometrics: nineteenth century 87
business practices
Judy L. Klein
6 The method of diagrams and the black arts of inductive 98
economics
Judy L. Klein
7 Jevons versus Cairnes on exact economic laws 140
Jinbang Kim
8 A reconstruction of Henry L. Moore s demand studies 157
Nancy J. Wulwick ,
9 The probability approach to index number theory: prelude to 176
macroeconomics
Robert E. Prasch
10 The indicator approach to monitoring business fluctuations: 188
a case study in dynamic statistical methods
Philip A. Klein
vi Contents
11 The delayed emergence of econometrics as a separate 198
discipline
5. Ambirajan
12 Some conundrums about the place of econometrics in 212
economic analysis
Ingrid H. Rima
13 The right person, in the right place, at the right time: how 230
mathematical expectations came into macroeconomics
Bradley W. Bateman
14 The New Classical macroeconomics: a case study in the 245
evolution of economic analysis
Sherryl D. Kasper
15 Experimenting with neoclassical economics: a critical review 262
of experimental economics
Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Yanis Varoufakis
16 The Carnot engine and the working day 279
Murray Wolfson
17 The problem of interpersonal interaction: Pareto s approach 305
Vincent J. Tarascio
18 Is emotive theory the philosopher s stone of the ordinalist 318
revolution?
John B. Davis
19 If empirical work in economics is not severe testing, what 333
is it?
MobertS. Goldfarb
20 [Econometrics and the facts of experience 365
John Smithin
21 Simultaneous economic behavior under conditions of 379
ignorance and historical time
Donald W. Katzner
22 Uapounov techniques in economic dynamics and classical 396
thermodynamics: a comparison
Handall Bausor
23 The Hamiltonian formalism and optimal growth theory 406
Mancy J. Wulwick
24 The impact of John von Neumann s method 436
J. H. I. Dore
Index 453
Figures
6.1 Classification of lines by cause and effect 101
6.2 Early graphic representation in other modes of thought: (a) 105
Descartes 1637: 42; (b) Forbes 1834: Plate VII; (c) Oresme
1350; (d) Lubbock 1830: 66
6.3 Law curves in logical time demand curves: (a) Cournot 109
1838: Figure 1; (b) Dupuit 1844: Figure 3; (c) Lardner 1850:
249; (d) Jenkin [1870] 1887: 77; (e) Marshall 1879: Figure 8
6.4 William Playfair s chart of universal commercial history 115
6.5 Chart of all the imports and exports to and from England from 117
the year 1700 to 1782 by W. Playfair
6.6 Chart showing the value of the quarter of wheat in shillings 119
and in days wages of a good mechanic from 1565 to 1821
6.7 Chart representing the average yearly price of the quarter of 120
wheat from 1560 to 1822
6.8 Periodic commercial fluctuations 123
6.9 Microeconomic law curves in historical time: (a) Du Pont 127
[1774] 1955: Figure 2; (b) Gossen [1854] 1888: 8; (c) Jevons
1871:36
6.10 Macroeconomic law curves in historical time: (a) Lubbock 129
1840: 21; (b) Trotsky 1923: 11
6.11 Fact curves in logical time correlation surfaces: (a) Galton 131
1886: Plate X; (b) Yule 1911: 166
6.12 Fact curves in logical time regression lines and polygons: (a) 132
Yule 1897: 813; (b) Norton 1902: Diagram 16
8.1 Annual percentage changes of corn 1867 1911, Moore s data 158
8.2 Annual percentage changes of pig iron 1871 1912, Moore s 159
data
8.3 The price and quantity of pig iron 1871 1912 159
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8.4 The price and quantity of pig iron out of the time domain 160
8.5 (a) Scatter diagram and Moore s law of demand for corn 165
1872 1910; (b) demand for and supply of corn in percentage
terms 1873 and 1880, unconstrained estimates; (c) demand for
and supply of corn in percentage terms 1873 and 1880 with
restrictions on the slopes
8.6 (a) Scatter diagram and Moore s law of demand for pig iron 167
1872 1910; (b) demand for and supply of pig iron in
percentage terms 1873 and 1880, unconstrained estimates; (c)
demand for and supply of pig iron in percentage terms 1873
and 1880 with restrictions on the slopes
8.7 Demand and supply functions for corn according to Moore s 169
critics
8.8 Demand and supply functions for pig iron according to 169
Moore s critics
15.1 266
15.2 268
15.3 271
16.1 Carnot engine 282
16.2 The Carnot engine (mechanical plane) 283
16.3 Welfare under compulsion 285
16.4 Thermal plane 287
16.5 The utility time plane 288
16.6 Work cycle in the goods activities plane 292
16.7 Work cycle in the utility time plane 294
16.8 The capital cycle 296
16.9 The right hand rule 297
17.1 312
21.1 389
23.1 Figure 4 of Pontryagin etal. 419
23.2 The optimum growth path 421
23.3 The growth path of the competitive equilibrium with constant 426
returns to capital and/ (k) p
Tables
3.1 The original classification systems of Section F of the British 38
Association and the Statistical Society
3.2 The Statistical Society s 1840 revised classification 44
frameworks
3.3 The classification schemes of the Statistical Society of London 48
and the Central Statistical Commission of Belgium
3.4 Subject Index to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 50
vols XXVIII LVII, 1895
5.1 Contributions of economic investigation to statistical method 89
1862 1927
6.1 Classification of graphs 98
6.2 Early graphical representation in other modes of thought 102
6.3 Early graphical representation in political economy 107
17.1 Pareto s terms and terms in current usage 308
23.1 The laws of conservation in mechanics and electromagnetics 410
23.2 Definition of symbols 411
23.3 Explicit isomorphisms, Samuelson and Solow (1956) 416
23.4 418
23.5 420
23.6 425
23.7 The five cases of the Romer model 425
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