Titlebook: Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History; The Short View D. C. M. Platt Book 1989 D. C. M. Platt 1989 history.statistics.world history

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The Great GenerationBy the 1920s the process of data accumulation was well advanced; the ample results were employed by a new generation. Attention now turned to the ‘theory’ of international trade.

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The ‘World System’It is a misfortune for the great Fernand Braudel, honorary graduand of some twenty of the world’s universities and proud holder of the highest honours of France, that his ‘geohistory’ has given birth to what must surely be the most fanciful of manipulations in historical statistics, the product of the ‘development school’ of historians.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10300-3history; statistics; world history

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Introduction encourage unreliable conclusions. Of course, they can still prove useful if guided and directed by sound scholarship and reason. Alexander Gerschenkron, in his review of *Simon Kuznets’s ., explained that if calculations from quantitative data ‘are at variance with what we should expect from genera

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Governments and International Institutions the League of Nations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the United Nations, the Economic Commission for Latin America, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Geneva Agreement on Tariffs and Trade….

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