Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

by Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226256618
• ISBN13: 9780226256610
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"