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.
Part 1: Mood and Matter of Statistical Inquiry
1. The Function of
Economics, Political Science, and Statistics
2. The Statistical Method Set
Forth
3. Focus and Scope of Economics and Political Science
4. Economic,
Political, and Institutional Interrelations Part 2: The Statistical
Measurement of Economic and Political Data
5. Language and Types of
Statistical Measurement
6. The Summary Measurement of a Single Character
7.
Risk and Uncertainty
8. The Measurement of Time and Space Tendencies
9. The
Measurement of Relationships Between Characters Part 3: Statistical Fieldwork
in Economics and Political Science
10. Statistics Applied in Description
11.
Statistics Applied in Generalization
12. The Canvass of Possible Causal
Relations
13. Statistics Part in Causal Interpretation
14. Non-Statistical
Analysis and Interpretation Part 4: Sketch for a Statistical Economics and
Politics
15. Modification of the Concepts and Assumptions of Economic Theory
16. The Measurement of Economic Variations
17. The Interpretation of Economic
Variations
18. The Physical and Psycho-Physiological Basis of Economic
Variation
19. The Framework and Data of Statistical Politics
20. The
Statistical Summary and Interpretation of Political Variations
21. Systematic
Index of Economic and Political Issues Statistically Approached: A Table of
Cross-References
P. Sargant Florence
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