Preface

The Reader's Essential Non-Guide to The Age of Economic Measurement

Perspective

Economics and the History of Measurement

A. F. W. Crome's Measurements of the ``Strength of the State'': Statistical Representations in Central Europe around 1800

Make a Righteous Number: Social Surveys, the Men and Religion Forward Movement, and Quantification in American Economics

March to Numbers: The Statistical Style of Lucien March

Perspective

Reflections from the Age of Economic Measurement

Measuring Causes: Episodes in the Quantitative Assessment of the Value of Money

Quantity Theory and Needs-of-Trade Measurements and Indicators for Monetary Policymakers in the 1920s

Leontief and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54: Developing a Framework for Measurement

Richard Stone and Measurement Criteria for National Accounts

Perspective

Making Measuring Instruments

``Facts Carefully Marshalled'' in the Empirical Studies of William Stanley Jevons

An Instrument Can Make a Science: Jevons's Balancing Acts in Economics

Perspective

Measurement, and Changing Images of Mathematical Knowledge

Fisher's Instrumental Approach to Index Numbers

Quantifying the Qualitative: Quality-Adjusted Price Indexes in the United States, 1915--61

Contributors

Index