The Quantitative Study of Government Activity

Solomon Fabricant

The Journal of Economic History, 1950, vol. 10, issue S1, 4-18

Abstract: When it is the custom of the day to put its questions in terms of dimension and proportion, it is hardly necessary to argue that measurement can contribute to their solution. With that granted, our attention can be devoted to the problems that arise when attempting measurement. We could list these formally, but it may be more instructive to let the problems crop up in the course of a brief review of some recent work on trends in government activity during the past half century, and also to note possible applications to this field of some ideas developing in other work in economic statistics.

Date: 1950
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