Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View

by D.C.M. Platt

Overview

A study of the miscalculations of the figures for "world" history employed by statistically-minded historians. It is the product, primarily, of the resources of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, aiming to show the great misuse of numbers and the fragility of the conclusions derived from them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349103027
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Edition description:	1st ed. 1989
Pages:	91
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 The sowers: the recorders - Porter, McCulloch and Macgregor, Michael G.Mulhall, B.R.Mitchell and William Woodruff, early demographers, world commerce and demography - the Woytinskys; governments and international institutions - the statistics of foreign countries before 1914 - Britain's Board of Trade, The League of Nations, The United Nations. Part 2 The reapers: the great generation - F.W.Taussig and Jacob Viner, the "Skholm Group" and Gunnar Myrdal, Ragnar Nurkse, W.A.Lewis, Colin Clark, C.K.Hobson and A.H.Imlah, Simon Kuznets; the moderns - Paul Lamartine Yates, Alfred Maizels, Angus Maddison, Phyllis Deane and W.A.Cole, Paul Bairoch, generalists - S.B.Saul, A.J.Brown, H.Myint and L.J.Zimmerman; econometrics - the practitioners - Birnberg, Resnick and Hanson II, the professionals - Douglass C.North and Robert Paul Thomas, Irving B.Kravis and N.F.R.Crafts; the "world system" - Fernand Braudel, Arghiri Emmanuel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, Andre Gunder Frank.