Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Observation and observing in economics Harro Maas and Mary S. Morgan -- The space of observation Cunning observation: US agricultural statistics in the time of laissez-faire Emmanuel Didier -- Economic observation and measurement in Russia before 1917: surveying typicalities and sampling totalities Vincent Barnett -- The economist as surveyor: physiocracy in the fields Loïc Charles and Christine Théré -- The fragile dynamics of trust Making variety simple : agricultural economists in southern Italy, 1906-9 Federico D'Onofrio -- Observations in a hostile environment: Morgenstern on the accuracy of economic observations Marcel Boumans -- Observing attitudes, intentions, and expectations (1945-73) José M. Edwards -- Navigating the shoals of self-reporting: data collection in US expenditure surveys since 1920 Thomas A. Stapleford -- Relocating vision Field, undercover, and participant observers in US labor economics: 1900-1930 Malcolm Rutherford -- Observation through fiction: Frank Norris and E. M Forster Craufurd D. Goodwin -- Observing shocks Pedro Garcia Duarte and Kevin D. Hoover
"The purpose of the present volume is to uncover enough elements of [the history of observation (the noun) and observing (the verb) in economics] to broaden our understanding of how economists observe the world and so change the way historians, philosophers,and economists think about this basic activity of science." [p.9]