Quantitative Measurement in Economic History

Eli F. Heckscher

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1939, vol. 53, issue 2, 167-193

Abstract: The writer's general attitude toward economic history, 167. — Motives, conscious and unconscious, 169. — Unreliability of contemporary opinion, 171. — Population figures, 174. — Forestry, 176. — Coke on the Baltic trade, 176. — Problems of development, 179. — Value of statistics collected for other purposes, 180. — Statistical presentation of non-numerical facts, 180. — Inferences concerning matters outside the scope of materials themselves, 181. — Failure of data to reveal what might be expected, 184. — Swedish capitation tax, 184. — Importance of what the sources are about, 188. — Customs accounts, 189. — Comparing data from different sources, etc., 189. — Mathematical treatment, 190. — Small factors with great influence, 192. — Cause and effect, 193.

Date: 1939
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